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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8167S, -97.6214WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.891 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6214 West, latitude 36.8167 North, depth = 5.891 km. Unique identifier: us10005ztj. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ztj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 12:26:45 / July 4, 2016 @ 12:26 pm. The temblor was reported at 07:26:45 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winfield, Perry, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-five 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 10 km E of Medford, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.891 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E 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 2016-07-04 12:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-17 10:24:44 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 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 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us10005ztj Id of event.
Event Code 10005ztj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ztj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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