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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3207S, -97.5524WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Event id: us200041ri. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200041ri. Exact location of event, depth 3.917 km, -97.5524° West, 36.3207° North. The temblor was detected at 11:55:08 / 11:55 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/11/15 / 2015-11-03 17:55:08 / November 3, 2015 @ 5:55 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.917 km (2 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 23 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5524° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3207° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.917 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2015-11-03 17:55:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-03 23:36:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 148 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 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us200041ri Id of event.
Event Code 200041ri An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041ri, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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