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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2121S, -97.5508WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/15 / 2015-12-17 15:56:06 / December 17, 2015 @ 3:56 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:56:06 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.5508° West, 36.2121° North, depth 4.58 km. Event id: us100047xn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100047xn. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.58 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yukon, Bethany, Warr Acres (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 one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5508° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WSW 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 2015-12-17 15:56:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-17 16:21:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 168 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 0.421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us100047xn Id of event.
Event Code 100047xn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100047xn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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