Minor earthquake, 3.48 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/10/19 / 2019-10-21 16:09:16 / October 21, 2019 @ 4:09 pm. The 3.48-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:09:16 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ok2019uqoj. Event ids that are associated: ok2019uqoj, us70005ws2. Exact location, longitude -95.32536316° West, latitude 35.11948776° North, depth = 5 km.

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 Okmulgee, Muskogee, Henryetta. Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km ENE of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.48 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.32536316° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.11948776° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km 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	2019-10-21 16:09:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-21 16:20:48	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	1	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	186	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9777777195	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8870144004 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182.1353111	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	ok2019uqoj	Id of event.
Event Code	2019uqoj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019uqoj,us70005ws2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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