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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 1 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3306S, -96.784WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Event id: us20003nnv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nnv. Exact location of earthquake, -96.784° West, 36.3306° North, depth 5.367 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.367 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:22:06 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 02:22:06 / September 24, 2015 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Tulsa, Sapulpa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 1 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.784° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.367 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 02:22:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 21:33:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 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 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us20003nnv Id of event.
Event Code 20003nnv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nnv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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