Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 14:30:05 / May 9, 2017 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.6234 West, latitude 36.5917 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:30:05 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10008qt6. Event ids that are associated: us10008qt6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Wellington, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 25 km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.6234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5917° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km SSE 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	2017-05-09 14:30:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-09 14:51:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.15	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	200	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	0.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us10008qt6	Id of event.
Event Code	10008qt6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008qt6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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