Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Edmond in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.016 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10002ka3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002ka3. The temblor was detected at 16:40:52 / 4:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.4829° West, latitude 35.7694° North, depth = 6.016 km. Global time and date of event 18/06/15 / 2015-06-18 21:40:52 / June 18, 2015 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tecumseh, Blanchard, Shawnee. Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km N of Edmond, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4829° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7694° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.016 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km N of Edmond, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-06-18 21:40:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-06-29 02:38:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	129	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	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us10002ka3	Id of event.
Event Code	10002ka3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002ka3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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