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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4831S, -98.7714WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/16 / 2016-02-27 21:08:04 / February 27, 2016 @ 9:08 pm. Exact location, longitude -98.7714° West, latitude 36.4831° North, depth = 8.422 km. Unique identifier: us10004ujs. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004ujs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.422 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:08:04 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information 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 -98.7714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4831° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.422 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 2016-02-27 21:08:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-19 04:26:42 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004ujs Id of event.
Event Code 10004ujs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ujs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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