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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3133S, -96.6555WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.6555 West, latitude 36.3133 North, depth = 1.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ex4. Unique identifier: us10007ex4. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.99 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 05:12:39 / December 5, 2016 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:12:39 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bartlesville (c. 35 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bartlesville, Collinsville, Owasso (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6555° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-05 05:12:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-05 05:45:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007ex4 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ex4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ex4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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