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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2174S, -97.5763WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006898. Unique identifier: us10006898. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.46 km (2 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:35:18 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5763 West, latitude 36.2174 North, depth = 3.46 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 01:35:18 / July 29, 2016 @ 1:35 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Del City, Midwest City, Watonga (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 27 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km WSW 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 2016-07-29 01:35:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-29 01:55:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.52 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 239 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 0.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us10006898 Id of event.
Event Code 10006898 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006898, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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