Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Augusta in Georgia

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Augusta in Georgia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/17 / 2017-06-20 15:14:04 / June 20, 2017 @ 3:14 pm. Unique identifier: se60172262. Ids that are associated to the event: se60172262. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.87 km (9 miles). Exact location of event, depth 14.87 km, -82.0193329° West, 33.4303322° North. The temblor was reported at 10:14:04 / 10:14 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) from Augusta (c. 43 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Martinez (c. 35 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Aiken (c. 29 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Evans (c. 29 000 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from North Augusta (c. 21 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Batesburg-Leesville, Boiling Springs, Thomson.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SW of Augusta, Georgia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.0193329° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.4303322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SW of Augusta, Georgia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-20 15:14:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-20 15:21:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	42	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	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	155	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3496	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	se60172262	Id of event.
Event Code	60172262	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60172262,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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