Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Waynoka in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Waynoka in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 17:31:45 / October 28, 2024 @ 5:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.80427551 West, latitude 36.471138 North, depth = 1.952348828 km. Id of earthquake: ok2024vfhc. Event ids that are associated: ok2024vfhc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.952348828 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:31:45 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Woodward. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.80427551° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.471138° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.952348828 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-28 17:31:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-28 17:41:35	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02144691162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7725328872 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95.32899475	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	ok2024vfhc	Id of event.
Event Code	2024vfhc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024vfhc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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