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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Alva in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.723S, -98.7323WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Alva in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 09:35:43 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.036 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006ezb. Unique identifier: us20006ezb. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7323° West, 36.723° North, depth 6.036 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 14:35:43 / July 15, 2016 @ 2:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 10 km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.036 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Alva, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-15 14:35:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-29 09:20:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us20006ezb Id of event.
Event Code 20006ezb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006ezb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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