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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Edmond in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6157S, -97.3997WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100049qs. Id of event: us100049qs. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.59 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:41:17 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.3997° West, latitude 35.6157° North, depth = 6.59 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 19:41:17 / December 26, 2015 @ 7:41 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Cushing, Purcell (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km ESE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE of Edmond, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-26 19:41:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-26 20:04:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.5 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 141 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 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us100049qs Id of event.
Event Code 100049qs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049qs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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