Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Watonga in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Watonga in Oklahoma on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.427768707 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019spwl. Id of event: ok2019spwl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/19 / 2019-09-22 20:01:23 / September 22, 2019 @ 8:01 pm. Exact location, longitude -98.53385162° West, latitude 35.89928436° North, depth = 2.427768707 km. The temblor was detected at 14:01:23 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, El Reno, Clinton.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Clinton El Reno Oklahoma Piedmont United States Watonga Weatherford

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.53385162° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.89928436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.427768707 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-22 20:01:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-22 20:02:53	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	126	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2011151016	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.667697 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38.46208191	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	ok2019spwl	Id of event.
Event Code	2019spwl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019spwl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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