Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Dover in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Dover in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.88316667 West, latitude 35.94116667 North, depth = 6.7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/24 / 2024-05-04 16:18:37 / May 4, 2024 @ 4:18 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:18:37 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.7 km (4 miles). Unique identifier: ok2024itur. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2024itur, us6000mwc3.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Stillwater, Moore, Choctaw. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Dover, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.88316667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.94116667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSE of Dover, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-04 16:18:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-06 12:02:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	reviewed	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	124	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	93	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	ok2024itur	Id of event.
Event Code	2024itur	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024itur,us6000mwc3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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