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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Mooreland in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4978S, -99.163WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 11:43:08 / August 10, 2016 @ 11:43 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -99.163° West, 36.4978° North. The temblor was reported at 06:43:08 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006cky. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006cky.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Epicenter of the event was 22 km (13 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NNE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.163° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNE of Mooreland, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-10 11:43:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-10 12:05:26 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 130 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 0.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 us10006cky Id of event.
Event Code 10006cky An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cky, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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