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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Mooreland in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5083S, -98.8945WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 20:24:42 / December 29, 2015 @ 8:24 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.8945 West, latitude 36.5083 North, depth = 14.45 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.45 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:24:42 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004a9x. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004a9x.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 28 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.8945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5083° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km ENE of Mooreland, 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 20:24:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-30 16:16:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 138 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 0.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10004a9x Id of event.
Event Code 10004a9x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a9x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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