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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Buffalo in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7318S, -99.4152WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/12/17 / 2017-12-30 04:13:23 / December 30, 2017 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -99.4152 West, latitude 36.7318 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000bxzq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bxzq. The temblor was picked up at 22:13:23 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 22 km ESE of Buffalo, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.4152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ESE of Buffalo, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-30 04:13:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-30 04:19:24 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 121 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 0.484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us1000bxzq Id of event.
Event Code 1000bxzq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bxzq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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