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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 25 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9209S, -98.1563WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us2000ja27. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ja27. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.1563° West, 36.9209° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:26:43 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 14:26:43 / January 29, 2019 @ 2:26 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 25 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NE 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 2019-01-29 14:26:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-29 14:36:12 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 0.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us2000ja27 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ja27 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ja27, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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