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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4608S, -99.1555WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 08:46:10 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/16 / 2016-10-05 13:46:10 / October 5, 2016 @ 1:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 4.079 km, -99.1555° West, 36.4608° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.079 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us10006v72. Event ids that are associated: us10006v72.

Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Close 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 Woodward.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.1555° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.079 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2016-10-05 13:46:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-05 15:33:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 139 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006v72 Id of event.
Event Code 10006v72 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006v72, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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