Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.8092° West, latitude 36.8022° North, depth = 2.48 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100030ik. Unique identifier: us100030ik. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.48 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 02:05:33 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 07:05:33 / August 9, 2015 @ 7:05 am.

The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 47 km (29 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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Perry, Ponca City (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-three 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 6 km W of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8092° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8022° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km 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	2015-08-09 07:05:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-09 07:15:33	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	4.17	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	199	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	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	us100030ik	Id of event.
Event Code	100030ik	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100030ik,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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