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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag was detected near Buffalo in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.97857666S, -99.82794952WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.310118318 km (1 miles). The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:19:03 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 1.310118318 km, -99.82794952° West, 36.97857666° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 19:19:03 / January 21, 2020 @ 7:19 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020bmah. Unique identifier: ok2020bmah.

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 23 km NW of Buffalo, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.82794952° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.97857666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.310118318 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Buffalo, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-21 19:19:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 19:20:47 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 138 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04409129173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7229482256 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229.253273 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 ok2020bmah Id of event.
Event Code 2020bmah An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020bmah, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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