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

Posted by admin on September 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0731S, -97.4507WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 02:06:24 / September 14, 2015 @ 2:06 am. Id of earthquake: us20003j8n. Event ids that are associated: us20003j8n. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.4507 West, latitude 36.0731 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 21:06:24 / 9:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, El Reno, Del City.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0731° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE 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 2015-09-14 02:06:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-14 02:33:11 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 3.6 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 0.275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us20003j8n Id of event.
Event Code 20003j8n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j8n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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