Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Scottsboro in Alabama

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Scottsboro in Alabama on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -86.120163 West, latitude 34.6641655 North, depth = 6.18 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 23:55:03 / December 20, 2017 @ 11:55 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.18 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: se60185112. Unique identifier: se60185112. The temblor was picked up at 17:55:03 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hartselle, Tullahoma, LaFayette (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Huntsville (c. 180 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Madison (c. 42 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Gadsden (c. 36 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Albertville (c. 21 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tullahoma (c. 18 700 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 7 km W of Scottsboro, Alabama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.120163° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.6641655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km W 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	2017-12-20 23:55:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-21 00:00:20	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	131	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4379	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	se60185112	Id of event.
Event Code	60185112	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60185112,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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