Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.3469° West, 36.3846° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 01:03:19 / December 18, 2016 @ 1:03 am. The temblor was detected at 19:03:19 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000823h. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000823h.

Close 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 Cushing, Guthrie, Enid. Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.3469° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3846° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km 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	2016-12-18 01:03:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-18 01:13:01	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	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	0.153	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 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	us2000823h	Id of event.
Event Code	2000823h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000823h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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