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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Edmond in Oklahoma

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:18:53 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.4014 West, latitude 35.6744 North, depth = 4.35 km. Event id: us2000a3ja. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a3ja. Global time and date of event 02/08/17 / 2017-08-02 05:18:53 / August 2, 2017 @ 5:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.35 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Seminole, Purcell, Perry (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4014° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6744° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.35 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	2017-08-02 05:18:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-02 05:42:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	183	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.94	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	271	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	0.129	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	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	us2000a3ja	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a3ja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a3ja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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