Earthquake: M 2.68 quake strikes near Jackson in Ohio

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.68 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Jackson in Ohio. The temblor was reported at 07:41:10 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 21.81 km (14 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-11 12:41:10 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -82.7405 West, latitude 39.1596667 North, depth 21.81 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Lancaster (c. 38 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Athens (c. 23 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Chillicothe (c. 21 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Portsmouth (c. 20 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Washington Court House (c. 14 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hillsboro, Washington Court House, Flatwoods.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.7405° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1596667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NW of Jackson, Ohio	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-11 00:41:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-02-12 14:19:06	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	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	110	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	se	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4181	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	se60004208	Id of event.
Event Code	60004208	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	se60004208	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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