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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us1000d7sr. Event ids that are associated: us1000d7sr. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:53:54 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.8148° West, latitude 36.1219° North, depth = 4.816 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/03/18 / 2018-03-23 00:53:54 / March 23, 2018 @ 12:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.816 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bethany, Warr Acres, Yukon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km E of Hennessey, 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	-97.8148° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1219° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.816 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km E of Hennessey, 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 00:53:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-31 04:22:17	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	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	us1000d7sr	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d7sr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d7sr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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