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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0679S, -97.5707WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 23:28:48 / May 13, 2018 @ 11:28 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e4bx. Id of event: us1000e4bx. The temblor was picked up at 17:28:48 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.21 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5707 West, latitude 36.0679 North, depth = 7.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tuttle, Blackwell, Ponca City (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 12 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5707° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of Crescent, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-13 23:28:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 23:51:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 38 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 259 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 0.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us1000e4bx Id of event.
Event Code 1000e4bx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e4bx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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