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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Stillwater in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0753S, -97.1979WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Stillwater in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.1979° West, latitude 36.0753° North, depth = 8.305 km. Global time and date of event 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 12:38:45 / January 4, 2016 @ 12:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.305 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:38:45 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004b67. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004b67.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Del City, Oklahoma City, Bethany (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km WSW of Stillwater, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1979° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.305 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW of Stillwater, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 12:38:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-15 13:01:34 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 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us10004b67 Id of event.
Event Code 10004b67 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004b67, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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