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

Posted by admin on July 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3807S, -98.1093WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Union City in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 02:58:25 / July 2, 2018 @ 2:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -98.1093° West, latitude 35.3807° North, depth = 11.27 km. Unique identifier: us2000ftib. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ftib. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:58:25 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.27 km (7 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Choctaw, Noble, Midwest City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km W of Union City, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1093° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W of Union City, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-02 02:58:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-02 03:20:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000ftib Id of event.
Event Code 2000ftib An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ftib, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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