Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -95.37081146° West, latitude 35.10198212° North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/19 / 2019-11-29 13:43:07 / November 29, 2019 @ 1:43 pm. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:43:07 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ok2019xjqe. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2019xjqe. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muskogee, Poteau, Henryetta (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 three and in the last 365 days twenty 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km S of Quinton, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.37081146° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.10198212° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km S 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	2019-11-29 13:43:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-29 13:46:52	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	127	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	0.9366303086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7374671214 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199.8032837	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	ok2019xjqe	Id of event.
Event Code	2019xjqe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019xjqe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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