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Minor earthquake 2.91 mag, 7 km E of Quinton, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.12704086S, -95.29241943WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 03:39:43 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019qgui. Unique identifier: ok2019qgui. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 09:39:43 / August 20, 2019 @ 9:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.29241943 West, latitude 35.12704086 North, depth = 5 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Henryetta, Muskogee, Poteau.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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. 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: 7 km E of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.29241943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.12704086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km E 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 2019-08-20 09:39:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-20 09:42:06 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 130 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 1.055241585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.096389423 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222.8412199 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 ok2019qgui Id of event.
Event Code 2019qgui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019qgui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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