Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Alex in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Alex in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 09:15:35 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.756645799 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7869873 West, latitude 35.00626755 North, depth = 1.756645799 km. Global time and date of event 27/08/24 / 2024-08-27 09:15:35 / August 27, 2024 @ 9:15 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2024qvjo. Id of event: ok2024qvjo.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Harrah, Edmond, Choctaw (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 10 km N of Alex, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7869873° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.00626755° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.756645799 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km N of Alex, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-27 09:15:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-27 09:22:36	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08329808712	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8291738665 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40.76777649	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	ok2024qvjo	Id of event.
Event Code	2024qvjo	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024qvjo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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