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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.465S, -99.161WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: us10006teh. Event ids that are associated: us10006teh. The temblor was detected at 19:49:10 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.545 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -99.161 West, latitude 36.465 North, depth = 4.545 km. Global time and date of event 28/09/16 / 2016-09-28 00:49:10 / September 28, 2016 @ 12:49 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 4 km NE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.161° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.465° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.545 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Mooreland, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-28 00:49:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-29 02:24:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us10006teh Id of event.
Event Code 10006teh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006teh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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