Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9843 West, latitude 36.8803 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:02:17 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 16:02:17 / March 16, 2016 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005a65. Id of event: us20005a65.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.9843° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km WNW 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	2016-03-16 16:02:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-16 16:13:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	0.078	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us20005a65	Id of event.
Event Code	20005a65	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005a65,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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