Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Coalgate in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Coalgate in Oklahoma on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.506 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.506 km, -96.2317° West, 34.5957° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us100072xy. Unique identifier: us100072xy. Global time and date of event 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 10:30:09 / October 29, 2016 @ 10:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:30:09 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Durant, McAlester, Holdenville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Durant (c. 15 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Holdenville (c. 5 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km N of Coalgate, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.2317° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.5957° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.506 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km N of Coalgate, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-29 10:30:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-25 09:27:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100072xy	Id of event.
Event Code	100072xy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100072xy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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