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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Buffalo in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9516S, -99.3021WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 18:01:51 / January 25, 2018 @ 6:01 pm. Exact location of event, depth 0.075 km, -99.3021° West, 36.9516° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.075 km (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:01:51 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000cptk. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cptk.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 31 km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.3021° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.075 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-25 18:01:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-29 23:15:51 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 245 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 us2000cptk Id of event.
Event Code 2000cptk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cptk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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