Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/17 / 2017-01-25 03:51:31 / January 25, 2017 @ 3:51 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.07 km (2 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:51:31 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007vai. Event ids that are associated: us10007vai. Exact location of event, depth 3.07 km, -97.4204° West, 36.2512° North.

Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, Edmond, Cushing (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4204° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2512° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km 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	2017-01-25 03:51:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-25 04:00:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	130	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	0.382	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	23	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	us10007vai	Id of event.
Event Code	10007vai	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007vai,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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