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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Cushing in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0477S, -96.7837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:03:06 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006kda. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006kda. Global time and date of event 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 20:03:06 / September 4, 2016 @ 8:03 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -96.7837 West, latitude 36.0477 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Skiatook, Ponca City, Edmond. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW 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 2016-09-04 20:03:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 20:16:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 158 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 0.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10006kda Id of event.
Event Code 10006kda An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006kda, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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