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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 17 km S of Medford, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6456S, -97.7403WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004u03. Id of event: us10004u03. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.7403 West, latitude 36.6456 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 06:05:30 / March 2, 2016 @ 6:05 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:05:30 / 12:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Ponca City, Perry (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7403° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6456° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km S of Medford, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-02 06:05:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-02 06:19:11 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 121 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 0.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us10004u03 Id of event.
Event Code 10004u03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004u03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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