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Earthquake 3.2 mb, 12 km WSW of Powhatan, Virginia


Earthquake location 37.5298S, -78.0702WAn earthquake with magnitude 3.2 mg has occurred in 12 km WSW of Powhatan, Virginia. Time of event: Thursday 22nd May @ 1:47 am UTC. Location of event: -78.0702S, 37.5298W, depth=9.9 km. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about quake recorded in: 12 km WSW of Powhatan, Virginia. 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 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.0702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WSW of Powhatan, Virginia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-05-22 01:47:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-05-22 14:55:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1675 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4 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 558 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network se The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources usse A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08084838 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75.599993952 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mblg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID se052214a Id of event.
Event Code 052214a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usb000qz3lse052214a A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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