Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 26 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 19:24:16 / December 17, 2016 @ 7:24 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:24:16 / 1:24 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000820z. Event ids that are associated: us2000820z. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.019 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 8.019 km, -98.0639° West, 36.7614° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.0639° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7614° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.019 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-17 19:24:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-30 21:41:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us2000820z	Id of event.
Event Code	2000820z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000820z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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