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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Choctaw in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5128S, -97.3032WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Choctaw in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 13:58:40 / September 15, 2015 @ 1:58 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003jmb. Id of event: us20003jmb. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:58:40 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.3032° West, 35.5128° North, depth 6.372 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.372 km (4 miles).

The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chickasha, Cushing, Stillwater (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 3 km WNW of Choctaw, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.372 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Choctaw, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-15 13:58:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-15 16:17:43 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 139 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003jmb Id of event.
Event Code 20003jmb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jmb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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