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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5429S, -98.9035WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 11:26:19 / December 19, 2017 @ 11:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5.48 km, -98.9035° West, 36.5429° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:26:19 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000bt0b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bt0b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.48 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 29 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km ENE 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 2017-12-19 11:26:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-19 11:36:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.66 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 247 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 0.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us1000bt0b Id of event.
Event Code 1000bt0b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bt0b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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