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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5345S, -98.9587WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.49 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.9587 West, latitude 36.5345 North, depth = 12.49 km. Global time and date of event 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 18:38:35 / December 10, 2016 @ 6:38 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:38:35 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zu5. Id of event: us20007zu5.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 24 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9587° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2016-12-10 18:38:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 18:52:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 168 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 0.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us20007zu5 Id of event.
Event Code 20007zu5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zu5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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