Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -95.34198761 West, latitude 35.12076569 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 08/12/20 / 2020-12-08 10:13:10 / December 8, 2020 @ 10:13 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020ybqh. Id of event: ok2020ybqh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:13:10 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter).

Close 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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km E of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.34198761° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.12076569° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km E 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	2020-12-08 10:13:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-08 10:16:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	125	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1320951283	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.000933661 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150.6611557	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	ok2020ybqh	Id of event.
Event Code	2020ybqh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020ybqh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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