Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:16:33 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.5738880634 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 19:16:33 / February 7, 2020 @ 7:16 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020crbu. Id of event: ok2020crbu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.4409256 West, latitude 35.0860939 North, depth = 0.5738880634 km.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okmulgee, Poteau, Muskogee (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WSW of Quinton, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.4409256° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0860939° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.5738880634 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WSW 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 19:16:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-07 19:34:59	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	138	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1180368364	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6941680795 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.0841064	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	ok2020crbu	Id of event.
Event Code	2020crbu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020crbu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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