Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Kingfisher in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kingfisher in Oklahoma on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.08794403 West, latitude 35.84087372 North, depth = 2.755173922 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.755173922 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ok2019onuz. Event ids that are associated: ok2019onuz. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/19 / 2019-07-26 18:52:24 / July 26, 2019 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:52:24 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moore, Midwest City, Del City.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 14 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.08794403° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.84087372° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.755173922 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-26 18:52:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-26 18:56:17	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	automatic	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	135	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ok	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1392114162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6037629663 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25.97277832	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	ok2019onuz	Id of event.
Event Code	2019onuz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019onuz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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