Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.925 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: us20005awx. Event ids that are associated: us20005awx. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:16:28 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 23:16:28 / March 18, 2016 @ 11:16 pm. Exact location, longitude -98.4397° West, latitude 36.2249° North, depth = 6.925 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 6 km SE of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.4397° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2249° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.925 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SE 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	2016-03-18 23:16:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-29 02:33:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	129	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20005awx	Id of event.
Event Code	20005awx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005awx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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