Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Edmond in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:04:41 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/10/16 / 2016-10-18 04:04:41 / October 18, 2016 @ 4:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.4076 West, latitude 35.67 North, depth = 4.94 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.94 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007f08. Id of event: us20007f08.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Perry, Cushing. Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4076° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.67° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-18 04:04:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-18 04:26:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	60	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.8	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	167	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	0.089	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	20	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	us20007f08	Id of event.
Event Code	20007f08	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007f08,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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