Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006uh2. Id of event: us10006uh2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/16 / 2016-10-02 03:51:09 / October 2, 2016 @ 3:51 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.34 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.34 km, -97.5766° West, 36.2155° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:51:09 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter 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), 78 km (48 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bethany, Cushing, Warr Acres. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5766° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2155° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km 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	2016-10-02 03:51:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-02 04:01:14	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	138	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	0.127	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us10006uh2	Id of event.
Event Code	10006uh2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006uh2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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