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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9862S, -97.5526WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 4.186 km, -97.5526° West, 35.9862° North. The temblor was reported at 13:21:39 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.186 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us200030zh. Ids that are associated to the event: us200030zh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 18:21:39 / July 28, 2015 @ 6:21 pm.

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 Moore, Cushing, Mustang. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 5 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5526° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9862° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.186 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE 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 2015-07-28 18:21:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-28 21:44:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us200030zh Id of event.
Event Code 200030zh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200030zh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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