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

Posted by admin on December 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5093S, -98.9611WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -98.9611° West, 36.5093° North, depth 5 km. Event id: us10007md7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007md7. The temblor was picked up at 15:51:46 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/16 / 2016-12-23 21:51:46 / December 23, 2016 @ 9:51 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2016-12-23 21:51:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-23 22:16:01 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 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 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us10007md7 Id of event.
Event Code 10007md7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007md7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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