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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 14 km NNW of La Center, Kentucky

Posted by admin on May 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2108333S, -88.99WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from La Center in Kentucky. Exact location, longitude -88.99° West, latitude 37.2108333° North, depth = 14.94 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 06:12:10 / May 1, 2016 @ 6:12 am. Unique identifier: nm60114087. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ctd, nm60114087. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.94 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:12:10 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Cape Girardeau (c. 37 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carbondale (c. 25 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Paducah (c. 25 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Marion (c. 17 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Jackson (c. 13 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Frankfort, Harrisburg, Murphysboro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 14 km NNW of La Center, Kentucky.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.99° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2108333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNW of La Center, Kentucky Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-01 06:12:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-01 06:50:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 190 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.21 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 282 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 nm60114087 Id of event.
Event Code 60114087 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ctd,nm60114087, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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