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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 36.6987S, -98.4298WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.208 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/18 / 2018-04-17 17:17:14 / April 17, 2018 @ 5:17 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:17:14 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000e1r3. Event ids that are associated: us2000e1r3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.4298 West, latitude 36.6987 North, depth = 7.208 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4298° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.208 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km 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 17:17:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-18 17:46:26 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 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us2000e1r3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000e1r3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e1r3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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