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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Perry in Oklahoma

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Earthquake location 36.2629S, -97.3827WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003xi7. Id of event: us10003xi7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3827 West, latitude 36.2629 North, depth = 7.949 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.949 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:00:36 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/15 / 2015-10-26 12:00:36 / October 26, 2015 @ 12:00 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Edmond, Cushing (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3827° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.949 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW 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 2015-10-26 12:00:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 09:43:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10003xi7 Id of event.
Event Code 10003xi7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003xi7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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