Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Cushing in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 14:01:26 / September 2, 2015 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.25 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:01:26 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003fqc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003fqc. Exact location of event, longitude -96.8013 West, latitude 35.9716 North, depth = 4.25 km.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 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), 82 km (51 miles) from Del City (c. 21 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bixby, Del City, The Village (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Cushing, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8013° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9716° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.25 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	2015-09-02 14:01:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-02 14:13:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	188	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	0.029	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us20003fqc	Id of event.
Event Code	20003fqc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003fqc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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