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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Langston in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0873S, -97.2392WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 20:02:10 / August 13, 2015 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:02:10 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10003239. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003239. Exact location of event, longitude -97.2392 West, latitude 36.0873 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yukon, Blackwell, Del City (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km N of Langston, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.2392° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N 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 2015-08-13 20:02:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 20:14:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.97 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 192 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 0.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us10003239 Id of event.
Event Code 10003239 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003239, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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