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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Lake View in Alabama

Posted by admin on April 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.3661S, -87.2036WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lake View in Alabama on Friday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:58:13 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005cep. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005cep. Exact location of event, depth 1.24 km, -87.2036° West, 33.3661° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 08:58:13 / April 29, 2016 @ 8:58 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.24 km (1 miles).

Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Birmingham (c. 212 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tuscaloosa (c. 90 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hoover (c. 81 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Vestavia Hills (c. 34 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Alabaster (c. 30 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moody, Clay, Dixiana.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three 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.

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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. 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: 11 km NNW of Lake View, Alabama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.2036° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.3661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNW of Lake View, Alabama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-29 08:58:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-29 09:08:45 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 138 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 0.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10005cep Id of event.
Event Code 10005cep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005cep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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