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


Earthquake location 36.9628S, -99.3796WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:24:03 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.458 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000c49k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c49k. Exact location of event, depth 3.458 km, -99.3796° West, 36.9628° North. Global time and date of event 14/12/17 / 2017-12-14 09:24:03 / December 14, 2017 @ 9:24 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 26 km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.3796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.458 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ENE 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 2017-12-14 09:24:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-09 03:05:59 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us2000c49k Id of event.
Event Code 2000c49k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c49k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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