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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Stroud in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 7, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8657S, -96.681WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/11/17 / 2017-11-04 17:38:58 / November 4, 2017 @ 5:38 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.432 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -96.681° West, latitude 35.8657° North, depth = 6.432 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:38:58 / 11:38 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bihm. Id of event: us2000bihm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Bixby, Perry. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.432 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N 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 2017-11-04 17:38:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-07 15:50:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 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 130 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 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us2000bihm Id of event.
Event Code 2000bihm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bihm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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