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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3548851S, -97.35661316WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.956526995 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020gapk. Id of event: ok2020gapk. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/20 / 2020-03-26 17:00:04 / March 26, 2020 @ 5:00 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -97.35661316 West, latitude 36.3548851 North, depth = 2.956526995 km. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:00:04 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Cushing, Guthrie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.35661316° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3548851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.956526995 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NW 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 2020-03-26 17:00:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-26 17:01:25 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 automatic 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 165 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ok The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ok, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1364078373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3624890293 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34.56209946 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 ok2020gapk Id of event.
Event Code 2020gapk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020gapk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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