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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Portageville in Missouri

Posted by admin on August 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4461667S, -89.59WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Portageville in Missouri. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nm60177702, us2000a9eh. Id of event: nm60177702. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/08/17 / 2017-08-18 15:18:21 / August 18, 2017 @ 3:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 12.37 km, -89.59° West, 36.4461667° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.37 km (8 miles). The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:18:21 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poplar Bluff, Ripley, Martin (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Poplar Bluff (c. 17 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km ENE of Portageville, Missouri. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.59° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4461667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Portageville, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-18 15:18:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-18 15:33:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 156 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 67 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03088 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 nm60177702 Id of event.
Event Code 60177702 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nm60177702,us2000a9eh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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