Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Avard in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Avard in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: ok2020lubw. Event ids that are associated: ok2020lubw. The temblor was detected at 12:33:25 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/06/20 / 2020-06-16 12:33:25 / June 16, 2020 @ 12:33 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -98.77846527 West, latitude 36.64125824 North, depth = 0.4001386762 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.4001386762 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 6 km S of Avard, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.77846527° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.64125824° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.4001386762 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km S of Avard, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-16 12:33:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-16 12:35:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1018009037	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.582550894 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60.61817932	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	ok2020lubw	Id of event.
Event Code	2020lubw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020lubw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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