Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Tuttle in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tuttle in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.93 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/06/17 / 2017-06-01 03:57:55 / June 1, 2017 @ 3:57 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7912 West, latitude 35.2555 North, depth = 11.93 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:57:55 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008x08. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008x08.

Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Harrah, Choctaw. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km SSE of Tuttle, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7912° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2555° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SSE of Tuttle, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-01 03:57:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-01 04:09:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	122	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	0.235	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us10008x08	Id of event.
Event Code	10008x08	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008x08,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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