Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5737° West, 36.2146° North, depth 6.59 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 22:01:36 / August 5, 2016 @ 10:01 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.59 km (4 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:01:36 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006c76. Unique identifier: us10006c76.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Warr Acres, Cushing, The Village.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 26 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5737° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2146° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km WSW 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	2016-08-05 22:01:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-21 00:27:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	129	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	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	us10006c76	Id of event.
Event Code	10006c76	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006c76,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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