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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9154S, -97.8692WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/16 / 2016-11-11 11:12:36 / November 11, 2016 @ 11:12 am. The temblor was reported at 05:12:36 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.41 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us100076un. Event ids that are associated: us100076un. Exact location of event, longitude -97.8692 West, latitude 36.9154 North, depth = 7.41 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Ponca City, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 17 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NW 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 2016-11-11 11:12:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-11 11:32:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 138 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 0.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us100076un Id of event.
Event Code 100076un An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100076un, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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