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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 7 km ENE of Harrah, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.5182S, -97.0919WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Harrah in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 10:28:17 / April 27, 2016 @ 10:28 am. Exact location of earthquake, -97.0919° West, 35.5182° North, depth 6.817 km. The temblor was detected at 05:28:17 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005bww. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005bww. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.817 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tuttle, Blanchard, Stillwater (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 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 fifteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 7 km ENE of Harrah, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.0919° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5182° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.817 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE of Harrah, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-27 10:28:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-22 05:56:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us10005bww Id of event.
Event Code 10005bww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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