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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.835S, -98.2833WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Friday. The temblor was detected at 11:31:32 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/12/15 / 2015-12-04 17:31:32 / December 4, 2015 @ 5:31 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100043e3. Event ids that are associated: us100043e3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.689 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.2833° West, 36.835° North, depth 4.689 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-four 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: 11 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.689 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-04 17:31:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-04 21:44:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100043e3 Id of event.
Event Code 100043e3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100043e3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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