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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 27 km NNE of Mooreland, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6461S, -99.0423WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -99.0423° West, 36.6461° North. Event id: us20007g3k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007g3k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:03:15 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/16 / 2016-10-22 13:03:15 / October 22, 2016 @ 1:03 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 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 three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km NNE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.0423° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km NNE 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 2016-10-22 13:03:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-22 15:23:19 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 0.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us20007g3k Id of event.
Event Code 20007g3k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007g3k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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