Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Edmond in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 12:03:55 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/17 / 2017-08-23 18:03:55 / August 23, 2017 @ 6:03 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.4298 West, latitude 35.6733 North, depth = 3.63 km. Id of earthquake: us2000ab1e. Event ids that are associated: us2000ab1e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.63 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Perry, Cushing (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 4 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4298° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6733° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km 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	2017-08-23 18:03:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-23 18:17:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	29	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	179	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	0.124	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us2000ab1e	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ab1e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ab1e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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