Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us1000629l. Event ids that are associated: us1000629l. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7372° West, 36.4801° North, depth 7.715 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.715 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 22:30:40 / July 9, 2016 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:30:40 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km NW of Fairview, 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	-98.7372° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4801° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.715 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 22:30:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-22 04:05:04	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	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	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us1000629l	Id of event.
Event Code	1000629l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000629l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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