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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Langston in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9612S, -97.3156WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -97.3156° West, 35.9612° North, depth 5.84 km. Id of earthquake: us10004aeb. Event ids that are associated: us10004aeb. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 11:22:48 / December 30, 2015 @ 11:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.84 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:22:48 / 5:22 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Reno, Mustang, Moore.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WNW of Langston, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3156° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW of Langston, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-30 11:22:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-30 11:47:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 121 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 0.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 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 us10004aeb Id of event.
Event Code 10004aeb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004aeb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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