Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:19:44 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.38 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 21:19:44 / May 8, 2016 @ 9:19 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005fxe. Unique identifier: us10005fxe. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5783° West, 36.2693° North, depth 7.38 km.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bethany, Warr Acres, Cushing (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5783° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2693° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km W 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	2016-05-08 21:19:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-08 21:30:24	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	3.82	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	199	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	0.166	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 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	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10005fxe	Id of event.
Event Code	10005fxe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005fxe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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