Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.55 km (9 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:34:35 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.6967° West, latitude 36.4961° North, depth = 14.55 km. Unique identifier: us100042gx. Ids that are associated to the event: us100042gx. Global time and date of event 01/12/15 / 2015-12-01 17:34:35 / December 1, 2015 @ 5:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.6967° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-01 17:34:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-01 17:50:22	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	121	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	0.271	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us100042gx	Id of event.
Event Code	100042gx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100042gx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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