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Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.76271057S, -98.06311798WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -98.06311798° West, latitude 36.76271057° North, depth = 2.259127855 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 05:38:46 / August 10, 2019 @ 5:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.259127855 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:38:46 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ok2019pofj. Event ids that are associated: ok2019pofj.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.06311798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.76271057° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.259127855 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km E 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 2019-08-10 05:38:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-10 05:39:59 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 137 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1858400255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5034772359 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131.2732639 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 ok2019pofj Id of event.
Event Code 2019pofj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019pofj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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