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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.10391617S, -95.33860016WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma on Saturday. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:13:45 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -95.33860016° West, latitude 35.10391617° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/19 / 2019-12-01 02:13:45 / December 1, 2019 @ 2:13 am. Id of earthquake: ok2019xmkl. Event ids that are associated: ok2019xmkl.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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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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: 3 km SE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.33860016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.10391617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE 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 2019-12-01 02:13:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-01 02:18:16 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 126 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1450817287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4891287581 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210.9135895 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 ok2019xmkl Id of event.
Event Code 2019xmkl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019xmkl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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