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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fairview in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4687S, -98.7515WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 7.775 km, -98.7515° West, 36.4687° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 23:22:36 / July 8, 2016 @ 11:22 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.775 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000622f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000622f. The temblor was reported at 18:22:36 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4687° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.775 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km 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 2016-07-08 23:22:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-24 22:29:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us1000622f Id of event.
Event Code 1000622f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000622f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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