Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Loco in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Loco in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.841072083 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/25 / 2025-12-24 04:09:25 / December 24, 2025 @ 4:09 am. Exact location, longitude -97.58477783° West, latitude 34.30896759° North, depth = 3.841072083 km. Id of earthquake: ok2025zcov. Event ids that are associated: ok2025zcov. The temblor was picked up at 04:09:25 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Lone Grove (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pauls Valley, Ardmore, Duncan (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km ESE of Loco, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.58477783° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.30896759° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.841072083 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ESE of Loco, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-24 04:09:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-24 04:11:19	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	125	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1070380509	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6641539566 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151.7238464	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	ok2025zcov	Id of event.
Event Code	2025zcov	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2025zcov,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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