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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Quinton in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.12818527S, -95.36636353WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 17:43:46 / August 16, 2019 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -95.36636353 West, latitude 35.12818527 North, depth = 5 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:43:46 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019qach. Id of event: ok2019qach.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Poteau (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 0 km NE of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.36636353° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.12818527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km 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 2019-08-16 17:43:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-16 17:47:26 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 133 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9515904784 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9625096525 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 276.2409515 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 ok2019qach Id of event.
Event Code 2019qach An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019qach, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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