Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 06:04:21 / February 28, 2018 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:04:21 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.66 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7856 West, latitude 36.4092 North, depth = 12.66 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d91f. Id of event: us2000d91f.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km WNW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7856° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4092° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km WNW 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	2018-02-28 06:04:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-28 06:25:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	0.077	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us2000d91f	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d91f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d91f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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