Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.956 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5346° West, 36.3275° North, depth 7.956 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/15 / 2015-10-14 14:01:35 / October 14, 2015 @ 2:01 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:01:35 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10003nlw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003nlw.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Ponca City, Blackwell. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5346° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3275° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.956 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km 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	2015-10-14 14:01:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-14 15:24:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us10003nlw	Id of event.
Event Code	10003nlw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003nlw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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