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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4629S, -98.7319WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.76 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 23:31:48 / March 2, 2016 @ 11:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:31:48 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7319 West, latitude 36.4629 North, depth = 4.76 km. Event id: us10004u7w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004u7w.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7319° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.76 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 2016-03-02 23:31:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-02 23:41:58 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 5.24 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 285 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 0.017 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 62 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 us10004u7w Id of event.
Event Code 10004u7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004u7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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