Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Mooreland in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. The temblor was picked up at 19:05:59 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.975° West, latitude 36.5709° North, depth = 7.274 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 00:05:59 / May 15, 2016 @ 12:05 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005hh7. Unique identifier: us10005hh7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.274 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 25 km NE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.975° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5709° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.274 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km NE of Mooreland, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-15 00:05:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-03 05:45:22	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	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us10005hh7	Id of event.
Event Code	10005hh7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005hh7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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