Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Luther in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Event id: us20008mya. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mya. Exact location of earthquake, -97.1953° West, 35.7959° North, depth 6.617 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:37:23 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/02/17 / 2017-02-28 15:37:23 / February 28, 2017 @ 3:37 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.617 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Noble, El Reno, Newcastle. Close 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 14 km N of Luther, Oklahoma.

Edmond El Reno Luther Midwest City Moore Newcastle Noble Norman Oklahoma Oklahoma City United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.1953° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7959° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.617 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km N of Luther, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-28 15:37:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-19 16:13:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	us20008mya	Id of event.
Event Code	20008mya	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008mya,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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