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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3934S, -97.3358WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:07:26 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.3358 West, latitude 36.3934 North, depth = 2.38 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 23:07:26 / May 11, 2016 @ 11:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gnu. Unique identifier: us10005gnu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.38 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cushing, Guthrie, Enid (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 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 12 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3934° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNW 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 2016-05-11 23:07:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 23:19:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 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 0.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us10005gnu Id of event.
Event Code 10005gnu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gnu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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