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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.12833333S, -95.34666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma on Thursday. Id of earthquake: ok2019pxxg. Event ids that are associated: ok2019pxxg. Exact location of earthquake, -95.34666667° West, 35.12833333° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:54:16 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 12:54:16 / August 15, 2019 @ 12:54 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km ENE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.34666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.12833333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE 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 2019-08-15 12:54:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-15 13:05:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8611310167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 ok2019pxxg Id of event.
Event Code 2019pxxg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019pxxg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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