Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Flagler Beach in Florida

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 167 km ENE of Flagler Beach, Florida (104 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:29:29 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 18:29:29 / September 4, 2016 @ 6:29 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006kp2. Unique identifier: us10006kp2. Exact location of event, longitude -79.5455 West, latitude 30.0969 North, depth = 0 km.

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 nearby. Each 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.

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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: 167 km ENE of Flagler Beach, Florida.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.5455° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.0969° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	167km ENE of Flagler Beach, Florida	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-04 18:29:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-05 22:00:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	0	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	222	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	2.229	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	experimental explosion	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10006kp2	Id of event.
Event Code	10006kp2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006kp2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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