Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 23:12:38 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.17 km (3 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 04:12:38 / June 29, 2015 @ 4:12 am. Exact location, longitude -97.8208° West, latitude 36.8997° North, depth = 4.17 km. Id of earthquake: us10002m9z. Event ids that are associated: us10002m9z.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Ponca City, Wellington. Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8208° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8997° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NW 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	2015-06-29 04:12:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-06-29 04:22:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	158	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	0.151	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	23	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	us10002m9z	Id of event.
Event Code	10002m9z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002m9z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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