Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Langston in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 16:20:23 / July 9, 2016 @ 4:20 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.95 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5.95 km, -97.2043° West, 35.9926° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000627s. Id of event: us1000627s. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:20:23 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Shawnee, Moore (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 45 km (28 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), 75 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

Did you feel it?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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 NE of Langston, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.2043° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9926° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km 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	2016-07-09 16:20:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-09 16:31:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	168	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	0.221	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us1000627s	Id of event.
Event Code	1000627s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000627s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Langston in Oklahoma

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information