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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0844S, -97.4304WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003j83. Unique identifier: us20003j83. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 00:04:53 / September 14, 2015 @ 12:04 am UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:04:53 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.4304 West, latitude 36.0844 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moore, Mustang, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 20 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0844° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 00:04:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-14 00:21:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 178 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 0.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 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 us20003j83 Id of event.
Event Code 20003j83 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j83, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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