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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Crescent in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0695S, -97.5686WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5686 West, latitude 36.0695 North, depth = 6.606 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:41:24 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000e5ix. Event ids that are associated: us1000e5ix. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/18 / 2018-05-15 14:41:24 / May 15, 2018 @ 2:41 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.606 km (4 miles).

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 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). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Harrah, Cushing, Del City.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 13 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.606 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2018-05-15 14:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-15 17:20:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us1000e5ix Id of event.
Event Code 1000e5ix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e5ix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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