Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 08:22:52 / March 2, 2016 @ 8:22 am. The temblor was detected at 02:22:52 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.7408° West, latitude 36.4516° North, depth = 5.26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u0m. Unique identifier: us10004u0m. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.26 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Woodward. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7408° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4516° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.26 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	2016-03-02 08:22:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-02 17:07:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.018	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	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	us10004u0m	Id of event.
Event Code	10004u0m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004u0m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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