Minor earthquake: M3.25 quake has struck near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 15:21:25 / August 14, 2024 @ 3:21 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -95.50120544° West, 35.08686066° North, depth 5 km. Event id: ok2024pycc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2024pycc. The 3.25-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:21:25 / 3:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Holdenville, Poteau, Sallisaw (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 12 km WSW of Quinton, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.50120544° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.08686066° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km WSW 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	2024-08-14 15:21:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-14 15:30:11	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	162	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1179289296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7769334124 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56.40843964	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	ok2024pycc	Id of event.
Event Code	2024pycc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024pycc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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