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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2951S, -97.5351WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.7 km (2 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us200063aa. Unique identifier: us200063aa. The temblor was picked up at 16:58:36 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/06/16 / 2016-06-09 21:58:36 / June 9, 2016 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5351 West, latitude 36.2951 North, depth = 3.7 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Cushing, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km W 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 2016-06-09 21:58:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-09 22:15:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 168 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 0.207 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 24 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 us200063aa Id of event.
Event Code 200063aa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063aa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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