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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.1162S, -97.5813WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5813 West, latitude 36.1162 North, depth = 4.475 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.475 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:53:40 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/16 / 2016-02-08 03:53:40 / February 8, 2016 @ 3:53 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004ynm. Id of event: us20004ynm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Del City, Midwest City, Cushing.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 18 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5813° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.475 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km N 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 2016-02-08 03:53:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-09 22:13:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20004ynm Id of event.
Event Code 20004ynm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004ynm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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