Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.04 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 10:48:17 / January 7, 2016 @ 10:48 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004c2g. Id of event: us10004c2g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.6991 West, latitude 36.4739 North, depth = 4.04 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:48:17 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Enid, Woodward. Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 30 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.6991° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4739° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km 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 10:48:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-07 11:01:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	139	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	0.233	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us10004c2g	Id of event.
Event Code	10004c2g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004c2g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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