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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7001S, -97.7376WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Saturday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:18:53 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006qd4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006qd4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/16 / 2016-09-17 06:18:53 / September 17, 2016 @ 6:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7376° West, 36.7001° North, depth 2.79 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.79 km (2 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Wellington, Perry. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 11 km S of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S 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 2016-09-17 06:18:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-17 06:31:02 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 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 0.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10006qd4 Id of event.
Event Code 10006qd4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006qd4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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