Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.7117° West, latitude 36.8124° North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 14:08:19 / October 20, 2016 @ 2:08 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:08:19 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20007fm1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fm1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Wellington (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7117° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8124° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ENE 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	2016-10-20 14:08:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-20 14:34:26	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	0.124	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us20007fm1	Id of event.
Event Code	20007fm1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007fm1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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