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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Medford in Oklahoma

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008una. Id of event: us20008una. The temblor was reported at 14:38:44 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.49 km, -97.7614° West, 36.6656° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/17 / 2017-03-25 20:38:44 / March 25, 2017 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.49 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Stillwater, Arkansas City, Wellington. The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km S of Medford, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7614° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km S of Medford, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-25 20:38:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-25 20:56:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.71	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	251	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	0.201	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us20008una	Id of event.
Event Code	20008una	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008una,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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