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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9163S, -97.6764WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: us20005l8s. Event ids that are associated: us20005l8s. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 20:57:40 / April 23, 2016 @ 8:57 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.576 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 15:57:40 / 3:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.6764° West, latitude 36.9163° North, depth = 5.576 km.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mulvane, Winfield, Enid.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6764° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.576 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNE 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 2016-04-23 20:57:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 03:59:49 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 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us20005l8s Id of event.
Event Code 20005l8s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005l8s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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