Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Crescent in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 12:36:25 / August 15, 2015 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5671 West, latitude 35.9999 North, depth = 5 km. Id of earthquake: us100032ks. Event ids that are associated: us100032ks. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 07:36:25 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 39 km (24 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). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moore, Cushing, Mustang.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5671° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9999° 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	2015-08-15 12:36:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-15 12:51:46	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	2.2	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	121	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	0.222	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us100032ks	Id of event.
Event Code	100032ks	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100032ks,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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