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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Crescent in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0092S, -97.588WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.49 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 10:19:44 / March 29, 2016 @ 10:19 am. Event id: us20005d4q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005d4q. Exact location, longitude -97.588° West, latitude 36.0092° North, depth = 5.49 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:19:44 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Norman, Newcastle (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 6 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2016-03-29 10:19:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-29 10:34:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 259 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 0.15 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005d4q Id of event.
Event Code 20005d4q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005d4q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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