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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4749S, -98.7448WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 01:01:30 / July 9, 2016 @ 1:01 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000623s. Event ids that are associated: us1000623s. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.1 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7448 West, latitude 36.4749 North, depth = 4.1 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:01:30 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7448° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.1 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 2016-07-09 01:01:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 01:13:55 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 129 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 0.003 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 71 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 us1000623s Id of event.
Event Code 1000623s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000623s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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