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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Quinton in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.1404S, -95.3668WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma on Sunday. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:07:12 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us600056ng. Event ids that are associated: us600056ng. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -95.3668° West, 35.1404° North, depth 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/19 / 2019-08-18 09:07:12 / August 18, 2019 @ 9:07 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Poteau, Muskogee. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NNE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.3668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1404° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNE 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 2019-08-18 09:07:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-18 09:26:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.6 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 216 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600056ng Id of event.
Event Code 600056ng An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600056ng, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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