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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near New Madrid in Missouri

Posted by admin on September 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4965S, -89.5601667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from New Madrid in Missouri. Unique identifier: nm60088632. Ids that are associated to the event: nm60088632. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:46:33 / 8:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.52 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 01:46:33 / September 2, 2015 @ 1:46 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.5601667 West, latitude 36.4965 North, depth = 9.52 km.

The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blytheville, Martin, Dyersburg. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSW of New Madrid, Missouri. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.5601667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of New Madrid, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-02 01:46:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-02 02:10:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 124 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04487 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 50 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 nm60088632 Id of event.
Event Code 60088632 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nm60088632, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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