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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4797S, -98.7004WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7004 West, latitude 36.4797 North, depth = 4.35 km. The temblor was reported at 12:32:59 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20004zjf. Unique identifier: us20004zjf. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.35 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 18:32:59 / February 11, 2016 @ 6:32 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid, Woodward. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-seven 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. 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: 30 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km 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 2016-02-11 18:32:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-11 18:47:19 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 138 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 0.228 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us20004zjf Id of event.
Event Code 20004zjf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004zjf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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