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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Lindsay in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.7667S, -97.5572WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lindsay in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 15:16:50 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/05/19 / 2019-05-11 21:16:50 / May 11, 2019 @ 9:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5572 West, latitude 34.7667 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003jw9. Unique identifier: us70003jw9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Del City (c. 21 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ardmore, Del City, Anadarko (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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km SSE of Lindsay, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5572° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Lindsay, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-11 21:16:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-11 21:32:15 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 3.1 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 0.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us70003jw9 Id of event.
Event Code 70003jw9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003jw9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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