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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Edmond in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.7444S, -97.3785WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.506 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.3785 West, latitude 35.7444 North, depth = 5.506 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002mqz. Unique identifier: us10002mqz. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 05:53:01 / July 1, 2015 @ 5:53 am. The temblor was detected at 00:53:01 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blanchard, Tecumseh, Noble (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 13 km NE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7444° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.506 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NE of Edmond, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-01 05:53:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 21:30:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 122 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us10002mqz Id of event.
Event Code 10002mqz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mqz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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