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Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 10 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.70722961S, -97.66966248WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Lamont in Oklahoma on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/20 / 2020-11-26 09:29:27 / November 26, 2020 @ 9:29 am. The temblor was detected at 09:29:27 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.66966248° West, 36.70722961° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020xfqu. Unique identifier: ok2020xfqu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Wellington, Perry.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.66966248° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.70722961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-26 09:29:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-26 09:33:30 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 85 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.209729448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7904122879 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54.85560608 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 ok2020xfqu Id of event.
Event Code 2020xfqu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020xfqu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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