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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cushing in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0306S, -96.7837WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 02:58:37 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200064xx. Ids that are associated to the event: us200064xx. Exact location of event, longitude -96.7837 West, latitude 36.0306 North, depth = 4.967 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.967 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 07:58:37 / June 16, 2016 @ 7:58 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Choctaw, Jenks.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNW of Cushing, 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 -96.7837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.967 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-16 07:58:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-10 05:23:52 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 129 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200064xx Id of event.
Event Code 200064xx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064xx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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