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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 17 km WSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7956S, -97.5945WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 5.597 km, -97.5945° West, 35.7956° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/16 / 2016-05-20 21:36:30 / May 20, 2016 @ 9:36 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10005j10. Event ids that are associated: us10005j10. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.597 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:36:30 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Noble, Watonga, Blanchard (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km WSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7956° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.597 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-20 21:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 22:58:38 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us10005j10 Id of event.
Event Code 10005j10 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005j10, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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