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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.535S, -98.9638WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200082ng. Id of event: us200082ng. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/12/16 / 2016-12-19 08:31:49 / December 19, 2016 @ 8:31 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.442 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5.442 km, -98.9638° West, 36.535° North. The temblor was picked up at 02:31:49 / 2:31 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 24 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9638° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.442 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 2016-12-19 08:31:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-27 14:52:45 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200082ng Id of event.
Event Code 200082ng An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200082ng, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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