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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 9 km NW of Murray Bridge, Australia

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Murray Bridge in Australia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.1965 East, latitude -35.0569 South, depth = 10 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:07:54 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007wmj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007wmj. Global time and date of event 01/02/17 / 2017-02-01 13:37:54 / February 1, 2017 @ 1:37 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Adelaide (c. 1 225 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Adelaide Hills (c. 60 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Morphett Vale (c. 22 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Prospect (c. 20 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Gawler (c. 20 000 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Murray Bridge (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Victor Harbor, Aldinga, Nuriootpa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 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 have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NW of Murray Bridge, Australia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.1965° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.0569° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NW of Murray Bridge, Australia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-01 13:37:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-01 19:47:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	570	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	40	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	252	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	3.438	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10007wmj	Id of event.
Event Code	10007wmj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007wmj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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