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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Stroud in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.8651S, -96.6862WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.5 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 03:51:19 / July 17, 2017 @ 3:51 am. The temblor was reported at 21:51:19 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009wux. Id of event: us20009wux. Exact location of event, longitude -96.6862 West, latitude 35.8651 North, depth = 3.5 km.

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Bixby, Perry (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one 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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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. 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: 13 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6862° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Stroud, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-17 03:51:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-17 04:07:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us20009wux Id of event.
Event Code 20009wux An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009wux, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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