Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Luther in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/17 / 2017-12-05 23:06:39 / December 5, 2017 @ 11:06 pm. Exact location, longitude -97.1599° West, latitude 35.6603° North, depth = 5.332 km. Id of earthquake: us1000bmkc. Event ids that are associated: us1000bmkc. The temblor was detected at 17:06:39 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.332 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Blanchard, El Reno (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 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 E of Luther, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Blanchard Edmond El Reno Luther Midwest City Moore Norman Oklahoma Oklahoma City Purcell United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.1599° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6603° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.332 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km E of Luther, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-05 23:06:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-07 03:46:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	131	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	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us1000bmkc	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bmkc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bmkc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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