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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Medford in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6252S, -97.6909WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6909 West, latitude 36.6252 North, depth = 7.61 km. Id of earthquake: us10003vjg. Event ids that are associated: us10003vjg. The temblor was picked up at 06:24:05 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 12:24:05 / November 7, 2015 @ 12:24 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.61 km (5 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Arkansas City, Ponca City. The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 20 km S of Medford, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6909° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S 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 2015-11-07 12:24:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-07 12:53:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10003vjg Id of event.
Event Code 10003vjg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vjg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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