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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 6 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.006S, -97.5761WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 13:12:15 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 18:12:15 / July 27, 2015 @ 6:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.18 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us200030gd. Ids that are associated to the event: us200030gd. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5761 West, latitude 36.006 North, depth = 3.18 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shawnee, Blackwell, Ponca City. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 6 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5761° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNE 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 2015-07-27 18:12:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 18:37:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1180 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.52 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 912 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 0.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200030gd Id of event.
Event Code 200030gd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200030gd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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