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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Cushing in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9973S, -96.8015WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:30:02 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -96.8015° West, latitude 35.9973° North, depth = 7.28 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.28 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20003jvi. Event ids that are associated: us20003jvi. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 02:30:02 / September 16, 2015 @ 2:30 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oklahoma City, Seminole, Okmulgee (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-16 02:30:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-16 02:51:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.59 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 257 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 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us20003jvi Id of event.
Event Code 20003jvi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jvi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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