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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Langston in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on June 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8657S, -97.239WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.46 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -97.239° West, latitude 35.8657° North, depth = 7.46 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/16 / 2016-06-12 10:15:25 / June 12, 2016 @ 10:15 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:15:25 / 5:15 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200063xs. Unique identifier: us200063xs.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Newcastle, El Reno, Norman (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km S of Langston, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.239° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S 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 2016-06-12 10:15:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-12 10:26:43 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 148 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 0.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 us200063xs Id of event.
Event Code 200063xs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063xs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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