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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4406S, -98.7151WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 12:48:15 / December 29, 2015 @ 12:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 06:48:15 / 6:48 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10004a8j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004a8j. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7151° West, 36.4406° North, depth 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2015-12-29 12:48:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-29 13:01:12 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 0.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us10004a8j Id of event.
Event Code 10004a8j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a8j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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