Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Perry in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.4844 West, latitude 36.1543 North, depth = 7.568 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:46:00 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 17:46:00 / December 6, 2017 @ 5:46 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bmtm. Unique identifier: us1000bmtm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.568 km (5 miles).

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Harrah, Del City, Midwest City (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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. 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: 23 km SW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4844° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1543° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.568 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km 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	2017-12-06 17:46:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-07 00:27:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	158	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	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	us1000bmtm	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bmtm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bmtm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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