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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near Quinton in Oklahoma

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Earthquake location 35.11629105S, -95.34490204WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2020yxol. Unique identifier: ok2020yxol. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.34490204 West, latitude 35.11629105 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/20 / 2020-12-20 10:17:08 / December 20, 2020 @ 10:17 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:17:08 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muskogee, Henryetta, Poteau (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km ESE of Quinton, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.34490204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.11629105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km 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 2020-12-20 10:17:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-20 10:20:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 130 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1330491602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8821563238 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150.682972 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 ok2020yxol Id of event.
Event Code 2020yxol An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020yxol, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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