Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Cushing in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -96.8019° West, latitude 35.9813° North, depth = 5.087 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 04:01:24 / October 12, 2015 @ 4:01 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:01:24 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003n2h. Id of event: us10003n2h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.087 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tulsa, Jenks, Shawnee (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8019° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9813° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.087 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km W 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	2015-10-12 04:01:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-12 20:57:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	129	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	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us10003n2h	Id of event.
Event Code	10003n2h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003n2h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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