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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 21 km W of Perry, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2994S, -97.5306WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5306 West, latitude 36.2994 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000itxh. Id of event: us2000itxh. The temblor was picked up at 15:31:03 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/18 / 2018-12-15 21:31:03 / December 15, 2018 @ 9:31 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 21 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2018-12-15 21:31:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-15 21:55:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 0.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 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 us2000itxh Id of event.
Event Code 2000itxh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000itxh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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