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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 10 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2094S, -97.0236WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Stillwater in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 5.92 km, -97.0236° West, 36.2094° North. Global time and date of event 02/05/17 / 2017-05-02 00:46:44 / May 2, 2017 @ 12:46 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:46:44 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.92 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008muu. Id of event: us10008muu.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Blackwell, Ponca City. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 10 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.0236° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-02 00:46:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-02 01:08:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 123 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 0.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10008muu Id of event.
Event Code 10008muu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008muu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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