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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Alva in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on June 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7293S, -98.7151WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Alva in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/16 / 2016-06-15 14:36:28 / June 15, 2016 @ 2:36 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.83 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064iy. Id of event: us200064iy. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7151° West, 36.7293° North, depth 6.83 km. The temblor was reported at 09:36:28 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7293° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 14:36:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 14:46:48 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 138 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 0.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us200064iy Id of event.
Event Code 200064iy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064iy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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