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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Richlands in Virginia

Posted by admin on July 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1892S, -81.8317WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Richlands in Virginia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 0 km, -81.8317° West, 37.1892° North. The temblor was reported at 05:53:39 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 09:53:39 / July 18, 2016 @ 9:53 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20006fi5. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006fi5.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bristol, Bristol, Wytheville. The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Bristol (c. 26 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bristol (c. 17 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bluefield (c. 10 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Wytheville (c. 8 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Abingdon (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 11 km NNW of Richlands, Virginia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.8317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1892° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNW of Richlands, Virginia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-18 09:53:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-18 16:13:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 178 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type mine collapse Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20006fi5 Id of event.
Event Code 20006fi5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fi5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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