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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Quinton in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.12080002S, -95.31860352WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/19 / 2019-08-17 23:18:05 / August 17, 2019 @ 11:18 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -95.31860352 West, latitude 35.12080002 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:18:05 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019qciv. Unique identifier: ok2019qciv.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau. Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km E of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.31860352° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.12080002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2019-08-17 23:18:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-17 23:20:11 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 154 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9833359718 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78860701 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182.5244341 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 ok2019qciv Id of event.
Event Code 2019qciv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019qciv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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