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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 25 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5157S, -98.9309WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.9309 West, latitude 36.5157 North, depth = 2.06 km. Unique identifier: us10007mfa. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007mfa. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 02:24:36 / December 24, 2016 @ 2:24 am. The temblor was reported at 20:24:36 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.06 km (1 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 25 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km 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 2016-12-24 02:24:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-24 02:33:17 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 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 0.118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us10007mfa Id of event.
Event Code 10007mfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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