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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 18 km WSW of Hennessey, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.03286362S, -98.08391571WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 08/10/19 / 2019-10-08 19:47:35 / October 8, 2019 @ 7:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.621370792 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.08391571 West, latitude 36.03286362 North, depth = 4.621370792 km. Id of earthquake: ok2019ttca. Event ids that are associated: ok2019ttca. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:47:35 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Perry, The Village, Warr Acres (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 18 km WSW of Hennessey, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.08391571° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.03286362° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.621370792 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW of Hennessey, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-08 19:47:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-08 19:48:47 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 121 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1103101075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2933947544 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24.17651367 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 ok2019ttca Id of event.
Event Code 2019ttca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019ttca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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