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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 16 km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8664S, -97.4491WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.4491 West, latitude 36.8664 North, depth = 0.426 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:51:15 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.426 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/19 / 2019-05-15 06:51:15 / May 15, 2019 @ 6:51 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003ldp. Unique identifier: us70003ldp.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Mulvane, Perry (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4491° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.426 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-15 06:51:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-15 07:12:17 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 0.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us70003ldp Id of event.
Event Code 70003ldp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ldp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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