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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8191S, -97.7922WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 18:16:30 / August 4, 2015 @ 6:16 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:16:30 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10002xxr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002xxr. Exact location of event, depth 3.37 km, -97.7922° West, 36.8191° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.37 km (2 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7922° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8191° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW 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 2015-08-04 18:16:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-04 18:47:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 179 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 0.063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us10002xxr Id of event.
Event Code 10002xxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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