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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.479S, -98.7889WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/16 / 2016-10-19 22:54:14 / October 19, 2016 @ 10:54 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:54:14 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20007fhi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fhi. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7889 West, latitude 36.479 North, depth = 2.05 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.05 km (1 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 36 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7889° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km NW 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 2016-10-19 22:54:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-19 23:09:56 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 0.037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 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 us20007fhi Id of event.
Event Code 20007fhi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fhi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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