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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Edmond in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.6908S, -97.3927WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us1000365e. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000365e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/15 / 2015-08-30 12:19:24 / August 30, 2015 @ 12:19 pm. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:19:24 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3927 West, latitude 35.6908 North, depth = 5.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.3 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chickasha, Seminole, Purcell.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3927° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE 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 2015-08-30 12:19:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-30 12:47:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 79 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.19 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 243 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 0.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us1000365e Id of event.
Event Code 1000365e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000365e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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