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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Lucien in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2927475S, -97.5136795WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lucien in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.541711688 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/21 / 2021-02-05 17:27:41 / February 5, 2021 @ 5:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:27:41 / 5:27 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ok2021cnhe. Event ids that are associated: ok2021cnhe. Exact location of event, depth 1.541711688 km, -97.5136795° West, 36.2927475° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5136795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2927475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.541711688 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-05 17:27:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-05 17:33:20 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 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2119902372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5988141874 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27.77716064 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 ok2021cnhe Id of event.
Event Code 2021cnhe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2021cnhe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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