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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 10 km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on June 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7216S, -98.7153WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Alva in Oklahoma. Event id: us200064iw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064iw. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:57 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/16 / 2016-06-15 14:30:57 / June 15, 2016 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.7153° West, 36.7216° North.

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 10 km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7153° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-15 14:30:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 14:40:36 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 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 0.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us200064iw Id of event.
Event Code 200064iw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064iw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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