Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Tuttle in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tuttle in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020ecre. Id of event: ok2020ecre. Exact location of event, longitude -97.884758 West, latitude 35.28155518 North, depth = 0.8511493802 km. The temblor was detected at 03:05:13 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.8511493802 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/20 / 2020-02-28 09:05:13 / February 28, 2020 @ 9:05 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Guthrie, Harrah (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 6 km W of Tuttle, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.884758° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.28155518° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.8511493802 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km W of Tuttle, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-28 09:05:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-28 09:09:23	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	133	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	88	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1102308854	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7148183854 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	18.82629395	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	ok2020ecre	Id of event.
Event Code	2020ecre	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020ecre,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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