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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9874S, -97.5596WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.176 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us20002xsm. Event ids that are associated: us20002xsm. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5596° West, 35.9874° North, depth 5.176 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:06:07 / 4:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 09:06:07 / July 15, 2015 @ 9:06 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moore, Cushing, Mustang (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 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 -97.5596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9874° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.176 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 2015-07-15 09:06:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 07:50:58 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 0.62 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 us20002xsm Id of event.
Event Code 20002xsm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xsm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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