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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9448S, -97.8401WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8401 West, latitude 36.9448 North, depth = 5.172 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:28:16 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.172 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/15 / 2015-11-11 15:28:16 / November 11, 2015 @ 3:28 pm. Event id: us10003xel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003xel.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Ponca City, Enid (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 18 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8401° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9448° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.172 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2015-11-11 15:28:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 02:49:06 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us10003xel Id of event.
Event Code 10003xel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003xel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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