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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 13 km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.045S, -97.5643WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5643 West, latitude 35.045 North, depth = 8.13 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.13 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000h3mg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h3mg. The temblor was detected at 01:07:08 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 07:07:08 / September 28, 2018 @ 7:07 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Duncan, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

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

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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: 13 km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5643° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-28 07:07:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-28 07:26:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 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 0.25 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us1000h3mg Id of event.
Event Code 1000h3mg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h3mg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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