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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4324S, -98.7818WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.4 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -98.7818 West, latitude 36.4324 North, depth = 3.4 km. The temblor was reported at 23:25:23 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100085wh. Event ids that are associated: us100085wh. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/03/17 / 2017-03-01 05:25:23 / March 1, 2017 @ 5:25 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward. Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7818° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4324° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-01 05:25:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-01 05:43:48 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 138 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 0.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us100085wh Id of event.
Event Code 100085wh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100085wh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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