Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Crescent in Oklahoma

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:18:27 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -97.5809° West, latitude 35.9987° North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200030nt. Id of event: us200030nt. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 01:18:27 / July 28, 2015 @ 1:18 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blanchard, Shawnee, Blackwell (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5809° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9987° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km 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	2015-07-28 01:18:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-28 01:45:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	191	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.51	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	399	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	0.226	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us200030nt	Id of event.
Event Code	200030nt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200030nt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-97.5809° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

35.9987° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

5 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

5km 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

2015-07-28 01:18:27

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-07-28 01:45:06

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

191

The total number of felt reports

CDI

4.6

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

5.51

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

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

399

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.226

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.29 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us200030nt

Id of event.

Event Code

200030nt

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us200030nt,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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