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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Edmond in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.6817S, -97.3961WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 05:39:19 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 11:39:19 / December 29, 2015 @ 11:39 am. Exact location of event, longitude -97.3961 West, latitude 35.6817 North, depth = 7.96 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.96 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004a85. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004a85.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Chickasha, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 8 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6817° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE 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 2015-12-29 11:39:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-29 12:06:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 372 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 508 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 0.102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004a85 Id of event.
Event Code 10004a85 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a85, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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