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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Cushing in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9921S, -96.8498WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 13:06:22 / September 20, 2015 @ 1:06 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:06:22 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003m6q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003m6q. Exact location of earthquake, -96.8498° West, 35.9921° North, depth 5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Midwest City, Glenpool, Shawnee (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 7 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9921° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km W 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 2015-09-20 13:06:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-20 13:22:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 139 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 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us20003m6q Id of event.
Event Code 20003m6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003m6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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