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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Cushing in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9758S, -96.7989WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 04:43:50 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 09:43:50 / September 1, 2015 @ 9:43 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003fc5. Unique identifier: us20003fc5. Exact location of earthquake, -96.7989° West, 35.9758° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Midwest City, Tulsa, Jenks (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 3 km WSW of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9758° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WSW of Cushing, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-01 09:43:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-01 13:05:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 0.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us20003fc5 Id of event.
Event Code 20003fc5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fc5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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