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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4381S, -97.2855WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 22:02:51 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.329 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/15 / 2015-06-12 03:02:51 / June 12, 2015 @ 3:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.2855° West, latitude 36.4381° North, depth = 5.329 km. Id of earthquake: us10002k34. Event ids that are associated: us10002k34.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Cushing, Guthrie.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km N of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.2855° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.329 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N 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 2015-06-12 03:02:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-08 05:05:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10002k34 Id of event.
Event Code 10002k34 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002k34, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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