Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -97.8492° West, 36.9473° North, depth 4.154 km. The temblor was reported at 05:17:59 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 11:17:59 / November 7, 2015 @ 11:17 am. Id of earthquake: us10003xg4. Event ids that are associated: us10003xg4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.154 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Arkansas City, Enid (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days six hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 18 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8492° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9473° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.154 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNW 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	2015-11-07 11:17:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-21 11:37:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us10003xg4	Id of event.
Event Code	10003xg4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003xg4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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