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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Mooreland in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on June 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4889S, -99.1045WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -99.1045° West, latitude 36.4889° North, depth = 4.402 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 22:20:15 / May 31, 2016 @ 10:20 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.402 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005zgv. Event ids that are associated: us20005zgv. The temblor was detected at 17:20:15 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages 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 six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.1045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.402 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE 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 2016-05-31 22:20:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-17 22:11:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us20005zgv Id of event.
Event Code 20005zgv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zgv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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