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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3176S, -97.5559WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.83 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5559 West, latitude 36.3176 North, depth = 4.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:29:26 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003ksr. Event ids that are associated: us10003ksr. Global time and date of event 06/10/15 / 2015-10-06 21:29:26 / October 6, 2015 @ 9:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Edmond, Ponca City. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 24 km W of Perry, 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 -97.5559° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2015-10-06 21:29:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-06 21:38:55 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 0.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10003ksr Id of event.
Event Code 10003ksr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003ksr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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