Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 34 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4636S, -98.7761WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7761 West, latitude 36.4636 North, depth = 12.41 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.41 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/18 / 2018-02-24 21:06:50 / February 24, 2018 @ 9:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000d7hi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7hi. The temblor was reported at 15:06:50 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

Did you feel anything?

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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7761° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2018-02-24 21:06:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-24 21:26:56 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 129 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 0.031 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us2000d7hi Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7hi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7hi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply