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Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Scottsboro in Alabama

Posted by admin on October 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.7548332S, -85.9121704WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Scottsboro in Alabama on Friday. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:38:10 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: se60181532. Event ids that are associated: se60181532. Exact location of event, depth 9.1 km, -85.9121704° West, 34.7548332° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 15:38:10 / October 20, 2017 @ 3:38 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Huntsville (c. 180 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Chattanooga (c. 167 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from East Chattanooga (c. 154 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Madison (c. 42 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Albertville (c. 21 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madison, East Brainerd, Fayetteville.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km NE of Scottsboro, Alabama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.9121704° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7548332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NE of Scottsboro, Alabama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-20 15:38:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 17:49:47 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 126 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.328 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 75 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 se60181532 Id of event.
Event Code 60181532 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,se60181532, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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