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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 3 km NE of Langston, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9669S, -97.2205WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 8.63 km, -97.2205° West, 35.9669° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/18 / 2018-09-24 19:46:05 / September 24, 2018 @ 7:46 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:46:05 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hjef. Unique identifier: us2000hjef. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.63 km (5 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Enid, Moore (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 3 km NE of Langston, 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 -97.2205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-09-24 19:46:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-24 22:52:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 0.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us2000hjef Id of event.
Event Code 2000hjef An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hjef, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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