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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4596S, -98.758WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 8.73 km, -98.758° West, 36.4596° North. The temblor was reported at 06:52:08 / 6:52 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000642k. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000642k. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 11:52:08 / June 13, 2016 @ 11:52 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.73 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.758° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km 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 2016-06-13 11:52:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-13 12:04:34 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 158 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 0.022 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us2000642k Id of event.
Event Code 2000642k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000642k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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