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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6575S, -98.4561WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 2.41 km, -98.4561° West, 36.6575° North. The temblor was picked up at 23:19:28 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.41 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000g7ps. Event ids that are associated: us2000g7ps. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 05:19:28 / July 18, 2018 @ 5:19 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid.

Each 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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 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 -98.4561° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6575° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2018-07-18 05:19:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 06:02:44 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 0.245 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us2000g7ps Id of event.
Event Code 2000g7ps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g7ps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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