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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 2 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma

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Earthquake location 35.9913S, -96.7888WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 4.036 km, -96.7888° West, 35.9913° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003mj6. Id of event: us20003mj6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 12:29:25 / September 19, 2015 @ 12:29 pm. The temblor was reported at 07:29:25 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.036 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Jenks, Tulsa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9913° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.036 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km 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 2015-09-19 12:29:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-21 23:34:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.3 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 131 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 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us20003mj6 Id of event.
Event Code 20003mj6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mj6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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