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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0877S, -97.5837WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 14:24:58 / November 19, 2015 @ 2:24 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:24:58 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.17 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zit. Id of event: us10003zit. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5837 West, latitude 36.0877 North, depth = 3.17 km.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Moore, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 15 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2015-11-19 14:24:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 14:44:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.62 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 250 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 0.308 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10003zit Id of event.
Event Code 10003zit An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zit, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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