Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 17:43:46 / August 16, 2019 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -95.36636353 West, latitude 35.12818527 North, depth = 5 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:43:46 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019qach. Id of event: ok2019qach.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Poteau (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 0 km NE of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.36636353° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.12818527° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km NE 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	2019-08-16 17:43:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-16 17:47:26	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	133	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9515904784	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9625096525 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	276.2409515	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	ok2019qach	Id of event.
Event Code	2019qach	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019qach,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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