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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2858S, -97.5121WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.244 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:22:40 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006fmx. Unique identifier: us20006fmx. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 04:22:40 / July 17, 2016 @ 4:22 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.244 km, -97.5121° West, 36.2858° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was The Village, Cushing, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from The Village (c. 8 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2858° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.244 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 04:22:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-11 05:07:39 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 4 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 189 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20006fmx Id of event.
Event Code 20006fmx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fmx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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