Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.528 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/17 / 2017-02-06 11:04:34 / February 6, 2017 @ 11:04 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:04:34 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20008i24. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008i24. Exact location of event, depth 4.528 km, -96.9792° West, 36.3193° North.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Blackwell, Ponca City.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 15 km W of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.9792° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3193° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.528 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km W 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	2017-02-06 11:04:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-24 08:40:40	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	129	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	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	17	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	us20008i24	Id of event.
Event Code	20008i24	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008i24,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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