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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 21 km S of Medford, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6129S, -97.6935WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6935 West, latitude 36.6129 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:57:36 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/03/16 / 2016-03-30 15:57:36 / March 30, 2016 @ 3:57 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005df9. Unique identifier: us20005df9.

Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Stillwater, Wellington (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km S of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6129° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S 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 2016-03-30 15:57:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-30 16:09:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.19 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 224 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 0.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us20005df9 Id of event.
Event Code 20005df9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005df9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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