Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Tuttle in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tuttle in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:46:45 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.88140106 West, latitude 35.27726364 North, depth = 0.7761035562 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/20 / 2020-02-19 22:46:45 / February 19, 2020 @ 10:46 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020dngt. Unique identifier: ok2020dngt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.7761035562 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Harrah, Choctaw, Purcell (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

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 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 6 km WSW of Tuttle, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.88140106° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.27726364° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.7761035562 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km WSW of Tuttle, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-19 22:46:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-19 22:50:26	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	123	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1051569209	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7682986803 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26.35488892	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	ok2020dngt	Id of event.
Event Code	2020dngt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020dngt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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