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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 13 km N of Doniphan, Missouri

Posted by admin on October 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.75S, -90.846WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Doniphan in Missouri. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.27 km (9 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:50:20 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/10/15 / 2015-10-16 20:50:20 / October 16, 2015 @ 8:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -90.846 West, latitude 36.75 North, depth = 14.27 km. Id of earthquake: nm60119416. Event ids that are associated: us10003p89, nm60119416.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dexter, Pocahontas, Poplar Bluff (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Poplar Bluff (c. 17 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Dexter (c. 7 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Pocahontas (c. 6 600 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km N of Doniphan, Missouri.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.846° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.75° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Doniphan, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-16 20:50:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-16 21:14:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 158 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 ,us,nm, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nm60119416 Id of event.
Event Code 60119416 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003p89,nm60119416, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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