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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6835S, -98.1992WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.65 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 25/01/19 / 2019-01-25 04:00:54 / January 25, 2019 @ 4:00 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:00:54 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000j8m9. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j8m9. Exact location of event, longitude -98.1992 West, latitude 36.6835 North, depth = 7.65 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 event was 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km ESE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 2019-01-25 04:00:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-25 22:57:54 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 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us2000j8m9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8m9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j8m9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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