Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6241 West, latitude 36.6916 North, depth = 1.73 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.73 km (1 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:12:58 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 08:12:58 / September 1, 2015 @ 8:12 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003far. Id of event: us20003far.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Arkansas City, Perry (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 16 km SE of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.6241° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6916° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SE 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	2015-09-01 08:12:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-01 08:24:09	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	2.2	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	130	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	0.247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us20003far	Id of event.
Event Code	20003far	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003far,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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