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


Earthquake location 35.9595S, -97.2337WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -97.2337 West, latitude 35.9595 North, depth = 5.03 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.03 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h33v. Unique identifier: us1000h33v. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/18 / 2018-09-27 03:46:10 / September 27, 2018 @ 3:46 am. The temblor was reported at 21:46:10 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mustang, Shawnee, Enid.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km NE of Langston, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.2337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km 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 2018-09-27 03:46:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-27 04:15:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 149 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 0.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us1000h33v Id of event.
Event Code 1000h33v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h33v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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