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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5307S, -98.9055WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.03 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.9055 West, latitude 36.5307 North, depth = 6.03 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/08/16 / 2016-08-20 02:32:07 / August 20, 2016 @ 2:32 am. Event id: us10006fc2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006fc2. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:32:07 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Close 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9055° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km ENE 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 2016-08-20 02:32:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-20 02:41:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 158 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 0.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us10006fc2 Id of event.
Event Code 10006fc2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006fc2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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