Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Langston in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 02:58:13 / July 1, 2018 @ 2:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.2865 West, latitude 35.8966 North, depth = 14.66 km. Event id: us2000ftb2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ftb2, us2000fsqw. The temblor was reported at 20:58:13 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.66 km (9 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tecumseh, Newcastle, Enid. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SSW 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	-97.2865° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSW 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	2018-07-01 02:58:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-01 22:22:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	152	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,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	0.169	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	us2000ftb2	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ftb2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ftb2,us2000fsqw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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