Minor earthquake: M3.15 quake has struck near Bardwell in Kentucky

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bardwell in Kentucky. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:21:52 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.52 km, -89.1236649° West, 36.8788338° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.52 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nm60194306. Id of event: nm60194306. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/17 / 2017-05-16 10:21:52 / May 16, 2017 @ 10:21 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murray, Dexter, Jackson (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Cape Girardeau (c. 37 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Paducah (c. 25 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Murray (c. 17 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Jackson (c. 13 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km W of Bardwell, Kentucky. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.1236649° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8788338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km W of Bardwell, Kentucky	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-16 10:21:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-16 10:35:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	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	154	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3234	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	nm60194306	Id of event.
Event Code	60194306	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60194306,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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