Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Longtown in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Longtown in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/19 / 2019-08-13 23:25:20 / August 13, 2019 @ 11:25 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019pvbc. Id of event: ok2019pvbc. The temblor was reported at 17:25:20 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.51672363 West, latitude 35.16172791 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sallisaw, Muskogee, Okmulgee (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.51672363° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.16172791° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km S of Longtown, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-13 23:25:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-14 13:12:42	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	135	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8610342145	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8754609695 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	218.6165161	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	ok2019pvbc	Id of event.
Event Code	2019pvbc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019pvbc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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