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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Medford in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.9276S, -97.8212WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 16:13:19 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003vm1. Event ids that are associated: us10003vm1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.77 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 22:13:19 / November 7, 2015 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -97.8212° West, 36.9276° North, depth 5.77 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Winfield, Mulvane (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 15 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW 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 22:13:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-07 22:27:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 178 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 0.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us10003vm1 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vm1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vm1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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