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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.705S, -98.0054WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 04:40:29 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004bqx. Id of event: us10004bqx. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.0054° West, 36.705° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 10:40:29 / January 6, 2016 @ 10:40 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km WSW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0054° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km WSW 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 2016-01-06 10:40:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-06 11:00:43 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 0.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10004bqx Id of event.
Event Code 10004bqx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004bqx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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