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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Coalgate in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.6847S, -96.3327WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Coalgate in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -96.3327° West, 34.6847° North, depth 5.5 km. The temblor was detected at 05:44:48 / 5:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 11:44:48 / January 23, 2019 @ 11:44 am. Id of earthquake: us2000j7rx. Event ids that are associated: us2000j7rx.

Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Durant (c. 15 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Seminole (c. 7 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Holdenville (c. 5 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Durant, Seminole, McAlester. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 19 km NNW of Coalgate, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.3327° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNW of Coalgate, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-23 11:44:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-21 14:05:00 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 us2000j7rx Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7rx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7rx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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