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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.7705S, -97.5467WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 13:16:55 / July 22, 2016 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:16:55 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.62 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006grn. Unique identifier: us20006grn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5467 West, latitude 36.7705 North, depth = 4.62 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winfield, Perry, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5467° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ESE 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 2016-07-22 13:16:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-22 13:26:14 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 138 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 0.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us20006grn Id of event.
Event Code 20006grn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006grn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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