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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2871S, -97.5092WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 06:23:23 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 12:23:23 / April 7, 2018 @ 12:23 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000dw3j. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dw3j. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.266 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.266 km, -97.5092° West, 36.2871° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bethany, Warr Acres, The Village. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 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 ten, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5092° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2871° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.266 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 2018-04-07 12:23:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 12:33:07 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 4.23 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 211 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000dw3j Id of event.
Event Code 2000dw3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dw3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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