Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Jefferson in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Jefferson in Oklahoma on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2021dlvw. Unique identifier: ok2021dlvw. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:08:53 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/21 / 2021-02-19 04:08:53 / February 19, 2021 @ 4:08 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.68117523 West, latitude 36.69722748 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Wellington, Perry (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.68117523° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.69722748° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-19 04:08:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-19 04:15:28	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	128	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	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2103097439	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7810375276 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52.96037102	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	ok2021dlvw	Id of event.
Event Code	2021dlvw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2021dlvw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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