Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.79 km (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 08:37:35 / July 11, 2017 @ 8:37 am. Exact location, longitude -96.6605° West, latitude 36.3049° North, depth = 2.79 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100098r6. Id of event: us100098r6. The temblor was detected at 02:37:35 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Collinsville, Owasso, Glenpool (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 13 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.6605° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3049° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km ESE 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	2017-07-11 08:37:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-11 08:50:30	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	0.067	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us100098r6	Id of event.
Event Code	100098r6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100098r6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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