Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Blackwell in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma on Monday. The temblor was detected at 01:57:14 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.2993742526 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019nswv. Unique identifier: ok2019nswv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 07:57:14 / July 15, 2019 @ 7:57 am. Exact location of event, depth 0.2993742526 km, -97.42197418° West, 36.88428497° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Derby, Enid (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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km NW of Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.42197418° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.88428497° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.2993742526 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km NW of Blackwell, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-15 07:57:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-15 07:58:39	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	automatic	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	127	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ok	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1359249949	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6212850871 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128.8253403	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	ok2019nswv	Id of event.
Event Code	2019nswv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019nswv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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