Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -95.31069946° West, 35.09801865° North, depth 5 km. Id of earthquake: ok2021efor. Event ids that are associated: us7000deqs, ok2021efor. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/03/21 / 2021-03-01 23:13:47 / March 1, 2021 @ 11:13 pm. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:13:47 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau. The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ESE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.31069946° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.09801865° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km ESE 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	2021-03-01 23:13:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-01 23:28:44	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	133	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	,us,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1662932783	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7437440728 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	202.6120148	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	ok2021efor	Id of event.
Event Code	2021efor	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000deqs,ok2021efor,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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