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Minor earthquake 3.02 mag, 14 km ENE of Stamford, New York

Posted by admin on September 27, 2015 3 Comments

Earthquake location 42.4355011S, -74.4085007WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Stamford in New York. Id of earthquake: ld60102901. Event ids that are associated: ld60102901, us20003pfd. The temblor was detected at 23:16:24 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -74.4085007° West, latitude 42.4355011° North, depth = 0.03 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.03 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 03:16:24 / September 27, 2015 @ 3:16 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mechanicville, Ballston Spa, Cohoes. Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from Albany (c. 97 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from West Albany (c. 93 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Schenectady (c. 66 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Troy (c. 50 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kingston (c. 23 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km ENE of Stamford, New York.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.4085007° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.4355011° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE of Stamford, New York Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-27 03:16:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-27 03:27:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 141 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 ,ld,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 ld60102901 Id of event.
Event Code 60102901 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ld60102901,us20003pfd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Amy

    Booming sound in Huntersland road Middleburgh ny

    September 27, 2015
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  2. Betsyn

    house shuttered

    September 27, 2015
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  3. Joe Adams

    Felt in Fultonham, NY, no damage noticed…

    September 27, 2015
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