Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Yale in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Yale in Oklahoma on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -96.8727 West, latitude 36.1263 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/17 / 2017-02-16 16:01:49 / February 16, 2017 @ 4:01 pm. Id of earthquake: us20008k9n. Event ids that are associated: us20008k9n. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:01:49 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Harrah, Sapulpa.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km W of Yale, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8727° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1263° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km W of Yale, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-16 16:01:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-16 18:05:35	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	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	us20008k9n	Id of event.
Event Code	20008k9n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008k9n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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