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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag strikes near Caruthersville in Missouri

Posted by admin on November 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1586667S, -89.692WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Caruthersville in Missouri. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.692 West, latitude 36.1586667 North, depth = 8.87 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.87 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:57:37 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 01:57:37 / November 24, 2016 @ 1:57 am. Unique identifier: nm60140077. Ids that are associated to the event: nm60140077.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Paragould (c. 26 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sikeston, Atoka, Munford.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1586667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-24 01:57:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-24 02:13:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 165 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 ,nm, 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 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nm60140077 Id of event.
Event Code 60140077 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nm60140077, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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