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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2723S, -97.5663WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.208 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10006ehv. Event ids that are associated: us10006ehv. The temblor was detected at 13:37:23 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 18:37:23 / August 17, 2016 @ 6:37 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5663 West, latitude 36.2723 North, depth = 6.208 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Edmond, Ponca City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 25 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5663° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.208 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km 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 2016-08-17 18:37:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 23:09:38 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 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 121 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 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us10006ehv Id of event.
Event Code 10006ehv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ehv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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