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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4769S, -98.7177WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 21:58:08 / January 29, 2016 @ 9:58 pm. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.7177° West, 36.4769° North. The temblor was reported at 15:58:08 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20004vn5. Event ids that are associated: us20004vn5.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7177° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4769° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 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 21:58:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-29 22:11:40 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 3.99 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 188 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 0.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20004vn5 Id of event.
Event Code 20004vn5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004vn5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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