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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5255S, -98.9989WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -98.9989 West, latitude 36.5255 North, depth = 14.87 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.87 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:54:07 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004t6g. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004t6g. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/02/16 / 2016-02-27 17:54:07 / February 27, 2016 @ 5:54 pm.

Event epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5255° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-27 17:54:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-27 18:17:25 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 2.2 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 130 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 0.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10004t6g Id of event.
Event Code 10004t6g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004t6g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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