Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Stroud in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/09/17 / 2017-09-22 04:08:48 / September 22, 2017 @ 4:08 am. Exact location, longitude -96.682° West, latitude 35.846° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 22:08:48 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aszh. Id of event: us2000aszh.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Perry, Bixby (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 11 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.682° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.846° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-22 04:08:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-22 04:21:11	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	0.129	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us2000aszh	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aszh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aszh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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