Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The temblor was picked up at 19:46:50 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10003x8m. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003x8m. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8084 West, latitude 36.9482 North, depth = 1.118 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/11/15 / 2015-11-11 01:46:50 / November 11, 2015 @ 1:46 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.118 km (1 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mulvane, Ponca City, Arkansas City.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8084° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9482° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km 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	2015-11-11 01:46:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-26 01:29:57	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	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	139	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	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us10003x8m	Id of event.
Event Code	10003x8m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003x8m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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