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Minor earthquake: M3.17 quake has struck near Pearisburg in Virginia

Posted by admin on September 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4550018S, -80.7014999WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pearisburg in Virginia on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 12:33:10 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.75 km (13 miles). Exact location of event, depth 20.75 km, -80.7014999° West, 37.4550018° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/09/17 / 2017-09-13 17:33:10 / September 13, 2017 @ 5:33 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: se60179327, us2000allb. Id of event: se60179327.

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Roanoke (c. 97 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Blacksburg (c. 42 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cave Spring (c. 24 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Salem (c. 24 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Christiansburg (c. 21 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vinton, Covington, Roanoke (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NNE of Pearisburg, Virginia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.7014999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4550018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNE of Pearisburg, Virginia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-13 17:33:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-13 17:45:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 158 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3307 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 se60179327 Id of event.
Event Code 60179327 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,se60179327,us2000allb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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