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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 8 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on February 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6856S, -97.3974WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/17 / 2017-02-06 11:04:19 / February 6, 2017 @ 11:04 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.3974° West, latitude 35.6856° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:04:19 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20008hwn. Event ids that are associated: us20008hwn.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (16 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Perry, Cushing.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km 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 2017-02-06 11:04:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-06 12:01:00 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 148 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 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us20008hwn Id of event.
Event Code 20008hwn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008hwn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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