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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7954S, -97.6182WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.37 km (2 miles). Event id: us10005zgq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005zgq. The temblor was detected at 07:10:15 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 12:10:15 / July 2, 2016 @ 12:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.6182° West, latitude 36.7954° North, depth = 3.37 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winfield, Perry, Arkansas City. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km E of Medford, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6182° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Medford, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-02 12:10:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-02 12:20:25 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 148 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 0.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us10005zgq Id of event.
Event Code 10005zgq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zgq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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