A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The 3.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:42:26 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 02:42:26 / February 7, 2020 @ 2:42 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020cpuz. Unique identifier: ok2020cpuz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.37738037 West, latitude 35.09634018 North, depth = 5 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Poteau. Close 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), 40 km (25 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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