Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Watonga in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Watonga in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.49 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.5691 West, latitude 35.7927 North, depth = 7.49 km. The temblor was reported at 18:22:38 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000ac62. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ac62. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/08/17 / 2017-08-27 00:22:38 / August 27, 2017 @ 12:22 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close 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 Piedmont, El Reno, Clinton.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km WSW of Watonga, Oklahoma.

Clinton El Reno Oklahoma Piedmont United States Watonga Weatherford

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.5691° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7927° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2017-08-27 00:22:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-27 00:36:50	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	0.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us2000ac62	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ac62	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ac62,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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