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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Edmond in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.6864S, -97.4107WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 12:47:08 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.5 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.4107 West, latitude 35.6864 North, depth = 7.5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 18:47:08 / December 29, 2015 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004a9l. Id of event: us10004a9l.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Perry, Cushing.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4107° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-29 18:47:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-29 19:09:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 132 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 0.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us10004a9l Id of event.
Event Code 10004a9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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