Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 33 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Event id: us2000hbbd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hbbd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.635 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/09/18 / 2018-09-09 02:01:48 / September 9, 2018 @ 2:01 am. The temblor was detected at 20:01:48 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7.635 km, -98.7245° West, 36.4929° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Woodward. Event epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 33 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7245° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4929° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.635 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km 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	2018-09-09 02:01:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-23 22:29:43	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		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	130	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	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us2000hbbd	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hbbd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hbbd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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