Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 6 km S of Lilbourn, Missouri

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Lilbourn in Missouri. Exact location of event, longitude -89.5976639 West, latitude 36.5718346 North, depth = 14.57 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/17 / 2017-05-14 12:56:23 / May 14, 2017 @ 12:56 pm. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:56:23 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.57 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nm60194166, us10008scb. Unique identifier: nm60194166.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Poplar Bluff (c. 17 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poplar Bluff, Martin, Dyersburg (min 5000 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 six 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. 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: 6 km S of Lilbourn, Missouri.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.5976639° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5718346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km S of Lilbourn, Missouri	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-14 12:56:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-14 13:05:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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		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	128	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.124	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	nm60194166	Id of event.
Event Code	60194166	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60194166,us10008scb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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