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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9969S, -96.8079WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8079 West, latitude 35.9969 North, depth = 3.04 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 09:16:56 / September 18, 2015 @ 9:16 am. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:16:56 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003l5f. Event ids that are associated: us20003l5f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.04 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bixby, Skiatook, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8079° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9969° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW 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 2015-09-18 09:16:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 09:33:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.1 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 189 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 0.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us20003l5f Id of event.
Event Code 20003l5f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003l5f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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