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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 8 km NW of Healdton, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.2885S, -97.5499WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Healdton in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 02:44:06 / August 4, 2015 @ 2:44 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5499 West, latitude 34.2885 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002xsg. Unique identifier: us10002xsg. The temblor was reported at 21:44:06 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Lone Grove (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pauls Valley, Duncan, Ardmore (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NW of Healdton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5499° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NW of Healdton, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-04 02:44:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-04 02:55:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 121 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 0.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002xsg Id of event.
Event Code 10002xsg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xsg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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