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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.602S, -97.7595WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 03:30:35 / May 1, 2018 @ 3:30 am. The temblor was detected at 21:30:35 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.417 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7595 West, latitude 36.602 North, depth = 1.417 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dv5d. Id of event: us1000dv5d.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 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 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km S of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.417 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km S 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 2018-05-01 03:30:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-26 04:03:36 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 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us1000dv5d Id of event.
Event Code 1000dv5d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dv5d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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