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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041dk. Id of event: us100041dk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 00:56:02 / November 26, 2015 @ 12:56 am. The temblor was picked up at 18:56:02 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.41 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.41 km, -97.8043° West, 36.9124° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Haysville, Winfield. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8043° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9124° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.41 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	2015-11-26 00:56:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-26 01:11:09	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	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	189	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	0.075	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 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	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100041dk	Id of event.
Event Code	100041dk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041dk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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