Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 07:01:12 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.39 km, -97.7961° West, 36.8138° North. Id of earthquake: us10002y38. Event ids that are associated: us10002y38. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.39 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 12:01:12 / August 5, 2015 @ 12:01 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Perry, Arkansas City, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km W of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7961° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8138° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km W 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 12:01:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-05 12:20:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.04	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	189	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	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us10002y38	Id of event.
Event Code	10002y38	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002y38,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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