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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Perry in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2801S, -97.5128WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.424 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -97.5128° West, 36.2801° North, depth 9.424 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 19:34:02 / September 16, 2015 @ 7:34 pm. Id of earthquake: us20003k50. Event ids that are associated: us20003k50. The temblor was reported at 14:34:02 / 2:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5128° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.424 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km W of Perry, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-16 19:34:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-16 20:37:53 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 3.4 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 139 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 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20003k50 Id of event.
Event Code 20003k50 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003k50, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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