Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Langston in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:13:47 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004yb1. Id of event: us20004yb1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.1891 West, latitude 35.9797 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/16 / 2016-02-06 09:13:47 / February 6, 2016 @ 9:13 am.

Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Shawnee, Moore. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km ENE of Langston, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.1891° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9797° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km ENE 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	2016-02-06 09:13:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-06 09:39:58	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		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	130	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	0.213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us20004yb1	Id of event.
Event Code	20004yb1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004yb1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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