Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Saturday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:40:15 / 4:40 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000629h. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000629h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.38 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7229 West, latitude 36.4742 North, depth = 5.38 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 21:40:15 / July 9, 2016 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7229° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4742° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km 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 21:40:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-09 21:50:32	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	2.7	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	158	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	0.016	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	37	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	us1000629h	Id of event.
Event Code	1000629h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000629h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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