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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near Ratliff City in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.39060211S, -97.42500305WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ratliff City in Oklahoma on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/21 / 2021-02-26 15:10:32 / February 26, 2021 @ 3:10 pm. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:10:32 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ok2021dzmf. Event ids that are associated: ok2021dzmf. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.423574686 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, depth 2.423574686 km, -97.42500305° West, 34.39060211° North.

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Purcell (c. 5 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Lone Grove (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Duncan, Pauls Valley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.42500305° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.39060211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.423574686 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-26 15:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-26 15:12:03 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 131 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04828368872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7147294219 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82.29795074 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 ok2021dzmf Id of event.
Event Code 2021dzmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2021dzmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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