Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag was detected near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: ok2020csvl. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2020csvl. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 18:20:36 / February 8, 2020 @ 6:20 pm. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:20:36 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -95.3552475° West, 35.07926559° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.3552475° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.07926559° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SSE 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	2020-02-08 18:20:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-08 18:23:57	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	140	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1540809423	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9002516932 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	223.8522606	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	ok2020csvl	Id of event.
Event Code	2020csvl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020csvl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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