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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4953S, -98.6951WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -98.6951° West, 36.4953° North, depth 11.54 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 20:27:48 / January 29, 2016 @ 8:27 pm. Id of earthquake: us20004vmd. Event ids that are associated: us20004vmd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.54 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:27:48 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Enid, Woodward.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.6951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4953° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km 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 2016-01-29 20:27:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-29 20:43:20 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 168 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 0.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us20004vmd Id of event.
Event Code 20004vmd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004vmd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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