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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.01 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.137 West, latitude 36.3765 North, depth = 5.01 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000atrn. Unique identifier: us2000atrn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 01:11:37 / September 24, 2017 @ 1:11 am. The temblor was picked up at 19:11:37 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Arkansas City, Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km NE of Perry, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.137° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3765° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NE 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	2017-09-24 01:11:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-24 01:27:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	28	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.59	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	262	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	0.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us2000atrn	Id of event.
Event Code	2000atrn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000atrn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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