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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Cushing in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.8936S, -96.7952WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:24:24 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 3.936 km, -96.7952° West, 35.8936° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.936 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003rjc. Id of event: us10003rjc. Global time and date of event 26/10/15 / 2015-10-26 02:24:24 / October 26, 2015 @ 2:24 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Del City, Jenks, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Del City (c. 21 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 10 km SSW of Cushing, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7952° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.936 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW 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 2015-10-26 02:24:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 02:44:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us10003rjc Id of event.
Event Code 10003rjc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003rjc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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