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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.441S, -96.9714WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000h961. Unique identifier: us2000h961. Exact location, longitude -96.9714° West, latitude 36.441° North, depth = 4.468 km. Global time and date of event 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 06:40:54 / September 6, 2018 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:40:54 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.468 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Arkansas City, Cushing. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and five 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. 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: 18 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.441° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.468 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-06 06:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-30 11:48:40 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 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us2000h961 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h961 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h961, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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