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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.7626S, -98.0702WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.225 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 16:48:16 / November 28, 2015 @ 4:48 pm. Exact location of event, depth 7.225 km, -98.0702° West, 36.7626° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:48:16 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100041x3. Event ids that are associated: us100041x3.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.225 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km E 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 2015-11-28 16:48:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-27 21:34:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 129 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 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us100041x3 Id of event.
Event Code 100041x3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041x3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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