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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 17 km NW of Coalgate, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.6598S, -96.3386WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Coalgate in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -96.3386 West, latitude 34.6598 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 09:11:45 / November 26, 2018 @ 9:11 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:11:45 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hwla. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hwla. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Durant, Seminole, McAlester (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Durant (c. 15 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Seminole (c. 7 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Holdenville (c. 5 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 17 km NW of Coalgate, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.3386° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NW of Coalgate, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-26 09:11:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-26 09:31:55 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 129 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 0.659 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us1000hwla Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwla An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwla, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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