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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Watonga in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7853S, -98.5753WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Watonga in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/17 / 2017-08-26 05:26:47 / August 26, 2017 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000abzg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000abzg. The temblor was detected at 23:26:47 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.5753 West, latitude 35.7853 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, El Reno, Clinton (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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 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: 16 km WSW of Watonga, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.5753° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Watonga, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-26 05:26:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-26 06:14:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 0.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000abzg Id of event.
Event Code 2000abzg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000abzg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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