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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.11463547S, -95.32386017WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: ok2019xbvy. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2019xbvy. The temblor was detected at 01:32:44 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -95.32386017 West, latitude 35.11463547 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/19 / 2019-11-25 07:32:44 / November 25, 2019 @ 7:32 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 62 km (39 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). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 4 km ESE of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.32386017° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.11463547° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE 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 2019-11-25 07:32:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-25 07:35:26 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 121 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1476382166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5381275418 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200.7863159 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 ok2019xbvy Id of event.
Event Code 2019xbvy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019xbvy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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