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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.53172684S, -98.99190521WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.023763657 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 04:25:35 / May 14, 2020 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -98.99190521 West, latitude 36.53172684 North, depth = 2.023763657 km. Id of earthquake: ok2020jlee. Event ids that are associated: ok2020jlee. The temblor was picked up at 22:25:35 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.99190521° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.53172684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.023763657 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-14 04:25:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-14 04:27:11 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0436335057 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4776824423 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89.28288269 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 ok2020jlee Id of event.
Event Code 2020jlee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020jlee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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