A minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -95.32181549 West, latitude 35.0865593 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 01:49:01 / February 7, 2020 @ 1:49 am. Unique identifier: ok2020cptf. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2020cptf. The 3.49-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:49:01 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Henryetta. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SE of Quinton, Oklahoma.
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