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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 7 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6692S, -97.3932WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma on Saturday. Global time and date of event 04/03/17 / 2017-03-04 16:08:38 / March 4, 2017 @ 4:08 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100086zd. Event ids that are associated: us100086zd. Exact location, longitude -97.3932° West, latitude 35.6692° North, depth = 6.825 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.825 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:08:38 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Perry, Cushing. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 7 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3932° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6692° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.825 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km 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 2017-03-04 16:08:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-28 16:48:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 23 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 146 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 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 26 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100086zd Id of event.
Event Code 100086zd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100086zd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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