Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Stroud in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000d7sv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d7sv. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:43:09 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -96.6981 West, latitude 35.8613 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/18 / 2018-03-23 01:43:09 / March 23, 2018 @ 1:43 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Bixby, Okmulgee. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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: 13 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.6981° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8613° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-23 01:43:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-23 07:21:32	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	0.094	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us1000d7sv	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d7sv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d7sv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Stroud in Oklahoma

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information