Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Hennessey in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 10:30:27 / October 31, 2017 @ 10:30 am. Exact location, longitude -97.925° West, latitude 36.0195° North, depth = 7.18 km. Event id: us1000ayym. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayym. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.18 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:30:27 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mustang, Oklahoma City, Perry (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km SSW of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.925° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0195° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSW of Hennessey, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-31 10:30:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-31 10:53:18	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	0.217	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us1000ayym	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ayym	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ayym,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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