Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Thomas in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Thomas in Oklahoma on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 09:41:32 / February 17, 2018 @ 9:41 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:41:32 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.8359° West, 35.69° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d3tk. Unique identifier: us2000d3tk. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Elk City (c. 11 700 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Elk City, Watonga, Clinton (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km SW of Thomas, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.8359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.69° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SW of Thomas, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-17 09:41:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-17 09:54:10	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	0.127	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	106	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	us2000d3tk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d3tk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d3tk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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