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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 19 km NNW of Crescent, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.1201S, -97.6387WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.219 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:33:38 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.6387° West, 36.1201° North, depth 6.219 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 14:33:38 / November 18, 2015 @ 2:33 pm. Unique identifier: us10003zae. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003zae.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Choctaw, Watonga, Oklahoma City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days ninety-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km NNW of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6387° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.219 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNW 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 2015-11-18 14:33:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-10 10:20:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10003zae Id of event.
Event Code 10003zae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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