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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6656S, -97.4047WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: us2000gd18. Event ids that are associated: us2000gd18. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 21:10:29 / July 24, 2018 @ 9:10 pm. Exact location, longitude -97.4047° West, latitude 35.6656° North, depth = 5.79 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.79 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:10:29 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Perry, Cushing.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4047° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-24 21:10:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 21:29:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 124 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 0.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us2000gd18 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gd18 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gd18, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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