Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Enid in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 20:32:47 / March 9, 2018 @ 8:32 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.7 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7565 West, latitude 36.4867 North, depth = 3.7 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:32:47 / 2:32 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d2gn. Unique identifier: us1000d2gn.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stillwater, Guthrie, Ponca City.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 14 km NE of Enid, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7565° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4867° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NE of Enid, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-09 20:32:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-09 21:27:13	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	0.183	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	35	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	us1000d2gn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d2gn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d2gn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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