Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.4307° West, latitude 36.1984° North, depth = 3.58 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:27:30 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10008ikj. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008ikj. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.58 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/17 / 2017-04-18 13:27:30 / April 18, 2017 @ 1:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 36 km (22 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 Warr Acres, The Village, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km SW of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4307° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SW 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	2017-04-18 13:27:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-18 13:48:34	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	4.2	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	121	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	0.169	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	24	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	us10008ikj	Id of event.
Event Code	10008ikj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008ikj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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