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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Mooreland in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on February 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5299S, -98.9499WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us2000d36z. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d36z. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 13:21:08 / February 16, 2018 @ 1:21 pm. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:21:08 / 7:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.9499 West, latitude 36.5299 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9499° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 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 2018-02-16 13:21:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 13:29:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.44 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 222 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 0.155 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us2000d36z Id of event.
Event Code 2000d36z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d36z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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