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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2813S, -97.5067WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5067 West, latitude 36.2813 North, depth = 4.39 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.39 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zya. Id of event: us20007zya. The temblor was picked up at 05:53:32 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 11:53:32 / December 11, 2016 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Piedmont, Cushing (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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 19 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5067° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2016-12-11 11:53:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 11:59:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 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 us20007zya Id of event.
Event Code 20007zya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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