Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20005xqz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005xqz. The temblor was detected at 01:09:59 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -98.7429 West, latitude 36.4606 North, depth = 10.1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 06:09:59 / May 25, 2016 @ 6:09 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-one 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7429° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km 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	2016-05-25 06:09:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-25 06:37:20	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	0.017	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us20005xqz	Id of event.
Event Code	20005xqz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005xqz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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