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Earthquake 2.7 mb, 15 km ENE of Benton, Illinois


Earthquake location 38.0373S, -88.7467WAn earthquake with magnitude 2.7 mg has occurred in 15 km ENE of Benton, Illinois. Time of event: Friday 18th April @ 3:02 am UTC. Location of event: -88.7467S, 38.0373W, depth=0.1 km. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about quake recorded in: 15 km ENE of Benton, Illinois. Did you feel it? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country.


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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7467° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ENE of Benton, Illinois Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-04-18 03:02:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-04-18 03:37:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 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 112 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nm The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources nm A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4940734 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118.799990496 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nm60070066 Id of event.
Event Code 60070066 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nm60070066 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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