Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag was detected near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: ok2020cqat. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2020cqat. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.12-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:37:27 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 05:37:27 / February 7, 2020 @ 5:37 am. Exact location of event, longitude -95.36560822 West, latitude 35.08226395 North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km S of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.36560822° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.08226395° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km 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	2020-02-07 05:37:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-07 05:42:15	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	150	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1466373503	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7227068717 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201.5823593	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	ok2020cqat	Id of event.
Event Code	2020cqat	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020cqat,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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