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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 15 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.421S, -97.3408WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Thursday. Global time and date of event 29/10/15 / 2015-10-29 05:43:35 / October 29, 2015 @ 5:43 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:43:35 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us200040dn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200040dn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3408 West, latitude 36.421 North, depth = 4.99 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.99 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Cushing, Guthrie. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 15 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3408° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW 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 2015-10-29 05:43:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-29 06:00:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 138 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 0.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us200040dn Id of event.
Event Code 200040dn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200040dn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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