Minor earthquake 2.5 mag, 1 km ENE of Wauregan, Connecticut

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.5 (mg/mb) was reported Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Wauregan in Connecticut. The temblor was reported at 07:27:07 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 5.25 km (3 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-13 12:27:07 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -71.8905 West, latitude 41.7373333 North, depth 5.25 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Worcester (c. 181 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Providence (c. 178 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Springfield (c. 153 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hartford (c. 124 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fall River (c. 88 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kensington, Marlborough, West Springfield.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.8905° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.7373333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km ENE of Wauregan, Connecticut	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-01-13 12:27:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-15 16:04:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	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	96	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ld	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	usld	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2448	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	ld60085901	Id of event.
Event Code	60085901	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000tf6pld60085901	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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