Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Cove Creek in North Carolina

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cove Creek in North Carolina. The temblor was picked up at 06:37:31 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.8700027 West, latitude 35.703167 North, depth = 3.06 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 11:37:31 / December 13, 2016 @ 11:37 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.06 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: se60141742. Event ids that are associated: se60141742.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jonesborough, Jefferson City, Morristown (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Asheville (c. 83 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Greeneville (c. 15 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sevierville (c. 14 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hendersonville (c. 13 100 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NE of Cove Creek, North Carolina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.8700027° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.703167° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NE of Cove Creek, North Carolina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-13 11:37:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-13 11:43:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	125	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	se	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,se,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05774	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	se60141742	Id of event.
Event Code	60141742	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60141742,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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