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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Holdenville in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.1114S, -96.3481WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Holdenville in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/05/19 / 2019-05-21 19:16:00 / May 21, 2019 @ 7:16 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -96.3481 West, latitude 35.1114 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:16:00 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60003qcd. Event ids that are associated: us60003qcd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Okmulgee, Shawnee, McAlester (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Seminole (c. 7 500 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km NE of Holdenville, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.3481° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE of Holdenville, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-21 19:16:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-21 19:25:30 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 129 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 0.254 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60003qcd Id of event.
Event Code 60003qcd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003qcd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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