Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.761 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/02/16 / 2016-02-23 21:51:28 / February 23, 2016 @ 9:51 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10004s68. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004s68. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:51:28 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.3896° West, 35.6643° North, depth 6.761 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Perry, Cushing (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (15 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.3896° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.761 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-23 21:51:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-17 22:13:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us10004s68	Id of event.
Event Code	10004s68	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004s68,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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