Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Hennessey in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 16:34:55 / November 29, 2017 @ 4:34 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000bvwc. Event ids that are associated: us2000bvwc. The temblor was reported at 10:34:55 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.663 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8327 West, latitude 36.1026 North, depth = 6.663 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Bethany (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8327° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1026° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.663 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km E 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	2017-11-29 16:34:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-29 22:58:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	21	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	us2000bvwc	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bvwc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bvwc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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