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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9123S, -97.8133WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us10003zyh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003zyh. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8133 West, latitude 36.9123 North, depth = 4.2 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.2 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:53:48 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 22:53:48 / November 20, 2015 @ 10:53 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mulvane, Arkansas City, Ponca City. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 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 twenty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8133° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2015-11-20 22:53:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 23:14:00 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 148 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 0.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us10003zyh Id of event.
Event Code 10003zyh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zyh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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