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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 8 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.033S, -97.9096WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c2gp. Unique identifier: us2000c2gp. Exact location of event, depth 2.15 km, -97.9096° West, 36.033° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/17 / 2017-12-09 22:25:53 / December 9, 2017 @ 10:25 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.15 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:25:53 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stillwater, Mustang, Oklahoma City. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma. This data 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 -97.9096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.033° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-09 22:25:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-09 22:41:21 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 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 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 0.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us2000c2gp Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2gp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2gp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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