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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on April 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7003S, -98.4336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.711 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4336 West, latitude 36.7003 North, depth = 6.711 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/18 / 2018-04-17 17:12:30 / April 17, 2018 @ 5:12 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000e1pp. Event ids that are associated: us2000e1pp. The temblor was detected at 11:12:30 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.711 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-17 17:12:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-18 15:52:09 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us2000e1pp Id of event.
Event Code 2000e1pp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e1pp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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