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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2842S, -97.1466WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Monday. Global time and date of event 28/12/15 / 2015-12-28 16:21:32 / December 28, 2015 @ 4:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.1466 West, latitude 36.2842 North, depth = 3.7 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:21:32 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004a3x. Event ids that are associated: us10004a3x. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.7 km (2 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Enid, Blackwell. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km E of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1466° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2842° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km E 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 2015-12-28 16:21:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-28 16:31:27 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 178 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 0.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us10004a3x Id of event.
Event Code 10004a3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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