Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -95.33724213 West, latitude 35.14852524 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 17:25:17 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019pvbb. Id of event: ok2019pvbb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/19 / 2019-08-13 23:25:17 / August 13, 2019 @ 11:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Henryetta, Muskogee. The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NE of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.03 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.33724213° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.14852524° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NE of Quinton, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-13 23:25:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-13 23:27:54	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	automatic	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	141	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ok	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9821243286	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06115845 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	211.6499233	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	ok2019pvbb	Id of event.
Event Code	2019pvbb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019pvbb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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