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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6049S, -97.792WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003119. Unique identifier: us10003119. Exact location, longitude -97.792° West, latitude 36.6049° North, depth = 5 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:06 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/15 / 2015-08-11 04:49:06 / August 11, 2015 @ 4:49 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 23 km SSW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6049° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SSW 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 2015-08-11 04:49:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-11 04:58:03 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 129 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 0.183 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us10003119 Id of event.
Event Code 10003119 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003119, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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