Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Healdton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Healdton in Oklahoma on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.5603427291 km (0 miles). Id of earthquake: ok2019waqz. Event ids that are associated: ok2019waqz. The temblor was detected at 04:22:18 / 4:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.36025238 West, latitude 34.38763428 North, depth = 0.5603427291 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/19 / 2019-11-10 10:22:18 / November 10, 2019 @ 10:22 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ada, Purcell, Duncan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Purcell (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km NE of Healdton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.36025238° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.38763428° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.5603427291 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km NE of Healdton, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-10 10:22:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-10 10:27:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	129	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09663373232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9082210897 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77.74280548	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	ok2019waqz	Id of event.
Event Code	2019waqz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019waqz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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