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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2421S, -98.4485WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:39:05 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ebk. Id of event: us10006ebk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 02:39:05 / August 17, 2016 @ 2:39 am. Exact location, longitude -98.4485° West, latitude 36.2421° North, depth = 5 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Weatherford, Enid, Watonga. Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km SE of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4485° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Fairview, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-17 02:39:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 03:10:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.19 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 203 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 0.243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us10006ebk Id of event.
Event Code 10006ebk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ebk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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