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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2808S, -97.5324WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 04:17:59 / July 17, 2016 @ 4:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20006fas. Event ids that are associated: us20006fas. Exact location, longitude -97.5324° West, latitude 36.2808° North, depth = 7.63 km. The temblor was reported at 23:17:59 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.63 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Reno, Oklahoma City, Choctaw (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5324° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2808° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2016-07-17 04:17:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-17 04:32:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 211 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.8 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 356 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 0.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20006fas Id of event.
Event Code 20006fas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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