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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Perry in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2836S, -97.4984WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.4984° West, latitude 36.2836° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/17 / 2017-11-23 00:54:57 / November 23, 2017 @ 12:54 am. Id of earthquake: us2000btcv. Event ids that are associated: us2000btcv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:54:57 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Cushing, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2836° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km W 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 2017-11-23 00:54:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-23 01:10:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 130 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 0.214 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 26 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 us2000btcv Id of event.
Event Code 2000btcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000btcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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