Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Orlando in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Orlando in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2024pnwd. Id of event: ok2024pnwd. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 00:59:42 / August 9, 2024 @ 12:59 am. Exact location of event, longitude -97.31682587 West, latitude 36.11202621 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 00:59:42 / 12:59 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Del City, Midwest City. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three 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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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SE of Orlando, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.31682587° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.11202621° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SE of Orlando, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-09 00:59:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-09 01:07:05	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	121	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6524797678	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.460472532 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192.8263707	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	ok2024pnwd	Id of event.
Event Code	2024pnwd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024pnwd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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