Minor earthquake: M3.37 quake has struck near Medford in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -97.68692017° West, latitude 36.70365524° North, depth = 0.04734126106 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 18:07:28 / March 29, 2020 @ 6:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020gged. Unique identifier: ok2020gged. The 3.37-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:07:28 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.04734126106 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Wellington, Perry. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 12 km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.37 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.68692017° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.70365524° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.04734126106 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSE 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	2020-03-29 18:07:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-29 18:11:38	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	automatic	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	175	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ok	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2243998945	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6977860084 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57.82943726	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	ok2020gged	Id of event.
Event Code	2020gged	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020gged,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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