Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Edmond in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 18:13:43 / December 30, 2015 @ 6:13 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:13:43 / 12:13 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004afu. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004afu. Exact location of event, depth 6.88 km, -97.4005° West, 35.6904° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.88 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Perry, Blanchard (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-nine 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.

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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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4005° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6904° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.88 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	2015-12-30 18:13:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-30 18:42:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	145	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	0.11	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	47	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	us10004afu	Id of event.
Event Code	10004afu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004afu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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