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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.28S, -97.5058WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Friday. The temblor was reported at 11:21:04 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5058 West, latitude 36.28 North, depth = 7.057 km. Unique identifier: us1000e307. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e307. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 17:21:04 / May 11, 2018 @ 5:21 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.057 km (4 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Cushing, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 19 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5058° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.28° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.057 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2018-05-11 17:21:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 15:56:05 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 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us1000e307 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e307 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e307, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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