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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.472S, -98.7276WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10004bz1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004bz1. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:27:28 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.25 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 04:27:28 / January 7, 2016 @ 4:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7276° West, 36.472° North, depth 5.25 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.25 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 2016-01-07 04:27:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-07 04:43:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 631 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.23 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 581 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 0.236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004bz1 Id of event.
Event Code 10004bz1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004bz1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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