Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 13:10:37 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004awk. Event ids that are associated: us10004awk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/16 / 2016-01-02 19:10:37 / January 2, 2016 @ 7:10 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.14 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7038 West, latitude 36.4383 North, depth = 5.14 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 71 km (44 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 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7038° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4383° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km 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	2016-01-02 19:10:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-02 19:42:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	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	0.247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us10004awk	Id of event.
Event Code	10004awk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004awk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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