Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 25 km S of Medford, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 07:30:01 / August 5, 2015 @ 7:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:30:01 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6926 West, latitude 36.5814 North, depth = 1.28 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.28 km (1 miles). Event id: us10002y1m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002y1m.

Epicenter of the event was 27 km (16 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Stillwater, Ponca City (min 5000 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km S of Medford, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.6926° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5814° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km S 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	2015-08-05 07:30:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-05 07:58:05	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	158	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	0.246	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us10002y1m	Id of event.
Event Code	10002y1m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002y1m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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