Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Edmond in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.4054 West, latitude 35.6668 North, depth = 5.02 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/17 / 2017-08-03 16:11:46 / August 3, 2017 @ 4:11 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:11:46 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.02 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000a45d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a45d.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Perry, Cushing (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4054° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6668° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE 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	2017-08-03 16:11:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-03 16:46:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	109	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	209	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	0.135	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us2000a45d	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a45d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a45d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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