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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 10 km E of Medford, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8021S, -97.6148WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.09 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 12:22:22 / August 14, 2016 @ 12:22 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:22:22 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006dr8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006dr8. Exact location of event, longitude -97.6148 West, latitude 36.8021 North, depth = 5.09 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Perry, Arkansas City. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 10 km E of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6148° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E 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 2016-08-14 12:22:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 12:32:48 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 148 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 0.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us10006dr8 Id of event.
Event Code 10006dr8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dr8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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