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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 8 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8433S, -97.8222WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -97.8222° West, 36.8433° North, depth 3.382 km. Id of earthquake: us100032wm. Event ids that are associated: us100032wm. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:00:58 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.382 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 00:00:58 / August 16, 2015 @ 12:00 am.

The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days eighty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 8 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8222° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.382 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WNW 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 2015-08-16 00:00:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 04:06:34 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 138 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100032wm Id of event.
Event Code 100032wm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032wm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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