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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Okeene in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2944S, -98.1714WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Okeene in Oklahoma on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us10005fq0. Event ids that are associated: us10005fq0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.1714° West, 36.2944° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was detected at 05:53:56 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/16 / 2016-05-07 10:53:56 / May 7, 2016 @ 10:53 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-07 10:53:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-07 11:04:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 0.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005fq0 Id of event.
Event Code 10005fq0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005fq0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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