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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Cushing in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9974S, -96.8232WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.75 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -96.8232 West, latitude 35.9974 North, depth = 2.75 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:25 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 02:03:25 / December 18, 2015 @ 2:03 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000481y. Unique identifier: us1000481y.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Del City, Tecumseh, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8232° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9974° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2015-12-18 02:03:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-18 02:24:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 183 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 0.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us1000481y Id of event.
Event Code 1000481y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000481y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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