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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 12 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.747S, -97.6097WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.09 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:16:50 / 7:16 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 12:16:50 / August 15, 2016 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10006dwm. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006dwm. Exact location of event, longitude -97.6097 West, latitude 36.747 North, depth = 2.09 km.

The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Arkansas City, Wellington.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 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 nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km ESE of Medford, 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 -97.6097° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.747° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2016-08-15 12:16:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-15 12:31:36 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 0.226 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 25 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 us10006dwm Id of event.
Event Code 10006dwm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dwm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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