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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.11894989S, -95.33579254WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:57:22 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -95.33579254° West, latitude 35.11894989° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 10:57:22 / July 15, 2019 @ 10:57 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019ntcu. Unique identifier: ok2019ntcu.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau.

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

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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: 3 km E of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.33579254° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.11894989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E 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 2019-07-15 10:57:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 11:00:31 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 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 138 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.021586776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03639439 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124.461525 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 ok2019ntcu Id of event.
Event Code 2019ntcu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019ntcu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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