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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0082S, -97.5709WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 09:54:33 / July 26, 2015 @ 9:54 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003074. Unique identifier: us20003074. Exact location, longitude -97.5709° West, latitude 36.0082° North, depth = 5.86 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:54:33 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.86 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Norman, Newcastle, Tuttle (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5709° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-26 09:54:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 10:11:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 235 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 0.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us20003074 Id of event.
Event Code 20003074 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003074, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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