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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 3, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7436S, -97.56WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002n8a. Unique identifier: us10002n8a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.12 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 10:43:54 / July 3, 2015 @ 10:43 am. The temblor was reported at 05:43:54 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.12 km, -97.56° West, 36.7436° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Wellington, Arkansas City. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 17 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.56° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-03 10:43:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-03 10:57:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 reviewed 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002n8a Id of event.
Event Code 10002n8a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002n8a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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