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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Pawnee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4202S, -96.9111WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/17 / 2017-07-08 20:20:45 / July 8, 2017 @ 8:20 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.81 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.9111 West, latitude 36.4202 North, depth = 3.81 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:20:45 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009wt3. Id of event: us20009wt3.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Arkansas City, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9111° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NW 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 2017-07-08 20:20:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-16 19:33:53 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 0.026 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us20009wt3 Id of event.
Event Code 20009wt3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009wt3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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