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Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag strikes near Quinton in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.0865593S, -95.32181549WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -95.32181549 West, latitude 35.0865593 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 01:49:01 / February 7, 2020 @ 1:49 am. Unique identifier: ok2020cptf. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2020cptf. The 3.49-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:49:01 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Henryetta. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop).

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. 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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SE of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.32181549° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0865593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE 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 2020-02-07 01:49:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-07 01:50:45 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 187 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1669651866 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7958320317 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222.6168633 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 ok2020cptf Id of event.
Event Code 2020cptf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020cptf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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