Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Cushing in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.228 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8073 West, latitude 35.9883 North, depth = 6.228 km. Id of earthquake: us2000aksk. Event ids that are associated: us2000aksk. The temblor was detected at 14:49:18 / 2:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 20:49:18 / September 9, 2017 @ 8:49 pm.

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 Jenks, Tulsa, Shawnee. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8073° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9883° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.228 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km W of Cushing, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-09 20:49:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-29 05:15:41	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000aksk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aksk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aksk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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