Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Ames in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ames in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -98.15725708° West, 36.30457306° North, depth 2.497068644 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.497068644 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/20 / 2020-08-05 10:13:11 / August 5, 2020 @ 10:13 am. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:13:11 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020phgk. Unique identifier: ok2020phgk.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Watonga, Enid (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.15725708° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.30457306° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.497068644 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-05 10:13:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-05 10:14:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2441076189	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5688020809 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61.39477348	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	ok2020phgk	Id of event.
Event Code	2020phgk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020phgk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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