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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.1263S, -97.6369WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.6369° West, latitude 36.1263° North, depth = 5.2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 12:08:40 / November 18, 2015 @ 12:08 pm. The temblor was picked up at 06:08:40 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.2 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003z86. Unique identifier: us10003z86.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mustang, Harrah, Blackwell. The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 19 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1263° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km N 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 2015-11-18 12:08:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-18 12:23:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 3.75 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 211 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 0.36 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10003z86 Id of event.
Event Code 10003z86 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003z86, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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