Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/11/19 / 2019-11-18 03:20:27 / November 18, 2019 @ 3:20 am. Unique identifier: ok2019wotc. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2019wotc. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:27 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.32540131 West, latitude 35.10685349 North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km ESE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.32540131° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.10685349° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km ESE 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	2019-11-18 03:20:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-18 03:24:13	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	129	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1513754725	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7019390425 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201.3232803	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	ok2019wotc	Id of event.
Event Code	2019wotc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019wotc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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