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


Earthquake location 36.5142S, -98.8858WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 12:28:36 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/17 / 2017-06-29 18:28:36 / June 29, 2017 @ 6:28 pm. Event id: us100095bz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095bz. Exact location of earthquake, -98.8858° West, 36.5142° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 29 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.8858° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-29 18:28:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-27 22:19:42 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 0.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us100095bz Id of event.
Event Code 100095bz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095bz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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