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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8478S, -98.0072WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Friday. The temblor was detected at 06:58:02 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/16 / 2016-08-26 11:58:02 / August 26, 2016 @ 11:58 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006u6q. Id of event: us20006u6q. Exact location, longitude -98.0072° West, latitude 36.8478° North, depth = 6.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.95 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km W of Medford, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0072° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km W 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 2016-08-26 11:58:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 12:24:07 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 121 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 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20006u6q Id of event.
Event Code 20006u6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006u6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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