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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 20 km W of Perry, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.282S, -97.52WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.17 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -97.52° West, latitude 36.282° North, depth = 1.17 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:26:15 / 2:26 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005z1e. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005z1e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 07:26:15 / July 1, 2016 @ 7:26 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was The Village, Cushing, Piedmont.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.52° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.282° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2016-07-01 07:26:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-01 07:36:21 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 0.206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us10005z1e Id of event.
Event Code 10005z1e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005z1e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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