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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 16 km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma

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Earthquake location 36.8688S, -97.4489WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma on Friday. Id of earthquake: us2000bq78. Event ids that are associated: us2000bq78. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:48:15 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 06:48:15 / November 17, 2017 @ 6:48 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.4489° West, latitude 36.8688° North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Mulvane, Perry (min 5000 pop). Close 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 two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4489° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-17 06:48:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-17 06:58:37 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 0.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us2000bq78 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bq78 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bq78, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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