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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 15 km SSW of Perry, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.1705S, -97.3714WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -97.3714° West, 36.1705° North, depth 6.69 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:13:17 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20004g54. Event ids that are associated: us20004g54. Global time and date of event 10/12/15 / 2015-12-10 16:13:17 / December 10, 2015 @ 4:13 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.69 km (4 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bethany, Warr Acres, Choctaw.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSW of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW 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 2015-12-10 16:13:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-18 18:58:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 0.379 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 37 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 us20004g54 Id of event.
Event Code 20004g54 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004g54, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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