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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 15 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4169S, -97.3517WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.73 km (3 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:27:05 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.3517° West, 36.4169° North, depth 4.73 km. Id of earthquake: us100076bv. Event ids that are associated: us100076bv. Global time and date of event 08/11/16 / 2016-11-08 20:27:05 / November 8, 2016 @ 8:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Cushing, Guthrie (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

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 fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 15 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3517° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4169° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW 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 2016-11-08 20:27:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-08 20:35:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 168 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 0.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us100076bv Id of event.
Event Code 100076bv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100076bv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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