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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Medford in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6073S, -97.6852WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 2.39 km, -97.6852° West, 36.6073° North. Id of earthquake: us20005csv. Event ids that are associated: us20005csv. The temblor was picked up at 18:28:22 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.39 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/03/16 / 2016-03-27 23:28:22 / March 27, 2016 @ 11:28 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stillwater, Wellington, Arkansas City. Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 22 km S of Medford, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6852° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2016-03-27 23:28:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 23:38:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 0.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us20005csv Id of event.
Event Code 20005csv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005csv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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