Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Crescent in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 12:30:36 / July 28, 2015 @ 12:30 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us200030sm. Ids that are associated to the event: us200030sm. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.75 km (3 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:30:36 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.5583° West, 36.0017° North, depth 4.75 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 39 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 (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Moore, Cushing (min 5000 pop).

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

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5583° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.75 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	2015-07-28 12:30:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-28 12:43:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	148	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	0.221	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us200030sm	Id of event.
Event Code	200030sm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200030sm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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