Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:27:17 / 8:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ok2021cjwc. Unique identifier: ok2021cjwc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 03/02/21 / 2021-02-03 20:27:17 / February 3, 2021 @ 8:27 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -95.36837769° West, latitude 35.12100983° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Poteau.

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.09 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.36837769° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.12100983° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0 km SE 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	2021-02-03 20:27:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-03 20:28:57	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	147	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1156268269	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7756299194 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189.1396103	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	ok2021cjwc	Id of event.
Event Code	2021cjwc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2021cjwc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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