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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5327S, -98.9744WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/03/17 / 2017-03-02 01:10:55 / March 2, 2017 @ 1:10 am. Id of earthquake: us100086eq. Event ids that are associated: us100086eq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.9744 West, latitude 36.5327 North, depth = 6.022 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.022 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:10:55 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter).

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

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9744° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.022 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 2017-03-02 01:10:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-28 02:23:46 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 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us100086eq Id of event.
Event Code 100086eq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100086eq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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