Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Wilson in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Wilson in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.18366667 West, latitude 35.54016667 North, depth = 0 km. The temblor was reported at 07:00:56 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ok2020atgo. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2020atgo. Global time and date of event 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 13:00:56 / January 11, 2020 @ 1:00 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Broken Arrow (c. 98 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muskogee, Tecumseh, Cushing (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km WNW of Wilson, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.18366667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.54016667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WNW of Wilson, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-11 13:00:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-13 15:43:48	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	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	122	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2663477335	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	2.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	other event	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ok2020atgo	Id of event.
Event Code	2020atgo	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020atgo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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