Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Verden in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Verden in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 13:03:53 / January 24, 2025 @ 1:03 pm. Unique identifier: ok2025bral. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2025bral. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.910836816 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:03:53 / 1:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.06837463 West, latitude 35.12593842 North, depth = 1.910836816 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Weatherford, Midwest City, Duncan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 5 km NNE of Verden, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.06837463° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.12593842° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.910836816 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NNE of Verden, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-24 13:03:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-24 13:08:18	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	122	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	87	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09171035141	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7738492899 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36.72288513	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	ok2025bral	Id of event.
Event Code	2025bral	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2025bral,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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