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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5133S, -98.6585WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.6585 West, latitude 36.5133 North, depth = 11.73 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:44:19 / 11:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.73 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20004zyk. Event ids that are associated: us20004zyk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 17:44:19 / February 13, 2016 @ 5:44 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid, Woodward. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km NNW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.6585° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NNW 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 2016-02-13 17:44:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-13 21:28:03 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 148 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 0.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 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 us20004zyk Id of event.
Event Code 20004zyk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004zyk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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