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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Blanchard in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.083S, -97.6106WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:08:56 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/16 / 2016-07-07 23:08:56 / July 7, 2016 @ 11:08 pm. Unique identifier: us100061re. Ids that are associated to the event: us100061re. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6106 West, latitude 35.083 North, depth = 5 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Duncan, Shawnee, Edmond. Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.083° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-07 23:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-07 23:22:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 122 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 0.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us100061re Id of event.
Event Code 100061re An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061re, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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