Minor earthquake: M2.5 quake strikes near Cave City in Arkansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.5 (mg/mb) was reported Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Cave City in Arkansas. The temblor was reported at 12:08:59 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-23 06:08:59 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -91.331 West, latitude 36.0772 North, depth 0.4 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Jonesboro (c. 67 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Batesville (c. 10 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Newport (c. 7 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Pocahontas (c. 6 600 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jonesboro, Newport, Batesville.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.331° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0772° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km NE of Cave City, Arkansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-01-23 06:08:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-23 14:20:42	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	reviewed	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	96	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1437304	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129.599989632	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	nm60003308	Id of event.
Event Code	60003308	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	nm60003308	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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