Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag was detected near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.84 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 18:40:38 / April 1, 2020 @ 6:40 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -95.352° West, 35.14483333° North, depth 8.84 km. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:40:38 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020glrt. Id of event: ok2020glrt.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Okmulgee, Poteau, Muskogee.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km NE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.352° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.14483333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NE 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	2020-04-01 18:40:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-01 18:49:23	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	reviewed	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	143	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1115781046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	ok2020glrt	Id of event.
Event Code	2020glrt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020glrt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag was detected near Quinton in Oklahoma

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information