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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Langston in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on February 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9897S, -97.1822WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us20004yk6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004yk6. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/16 / 2016-02-07 16:10:00 / February 7, 2016 @ 4:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.1822° West, 35.9897° North. The temblor was picked up at 10:10:00 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Moore, Shawnee. The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 8 km NE of Langston, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1822° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NE 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 2016-02-07 16:10:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-07 16:20:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 160 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 0.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us20004yk6 Id of event.
Event Code 20004yk6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004yk6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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