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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Bolivar in West Virginia

Posted by admin on January 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.2818S, -77.7317WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Bolivar in West Virginia on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 14:12:48 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/01/16 / 2016-01-17 19:12:48 / January 17, 2016 @ 7:12 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -77.7317° West, latitude 39.2818° North, depth = 5 km. Id of earthquake: us10004f8b. Event ids that are associated: us10004f8b.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bladensburg, East Riverdale, Riverdale Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Washington, D.C. (c. 601 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arlington (c. 207 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Columbia (c. 99 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Germantown (c. 86 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Silver Spring (c. 71 500 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 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km SSE of Bolivar, West Virginia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.7317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSE of Bolivar, West Virginia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-17 19:12:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-17 20:23:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 72 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 163 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 0.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10004f8b Id of event.
Event Code 10004f8b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004f8b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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