Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Edmond in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.4427 West, latitude 35.6988 North, depth = 8.41 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.41 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 11:29:47 / February 24, 2016 @ 11:29 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:29:47 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004sbr. Event ids that are associated: us10004sbr.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Cushing, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 6 km NNE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4427° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km NNE 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	2016-02-24 11:29:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-24 11:44:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	142	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	0.098	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us10004sbr	Id of event.
Event Code	10004sbr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004sbr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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