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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Broken Bow in Nebraska


Earthquake location 41.4754S, -99.4707WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Broken Bow in Nebraska. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004b81. Unique identifier: us10004b81. Exact location of earthquake, -99.4707° West, 41.4754° North, depth 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:04:33 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 16:04:33 / January 4, 2016 @ 4:04 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lexington (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Lexington (c. 10 200 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km ENE of Broken Bow, Nebraska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.4707° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ENE of Broken Bow, Nebraska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 16:04:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-04 16:14:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 189 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004b81 Id of event.
Event Code 10004b81 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004b81, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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