A minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Caruthersville in Missouri. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.52 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 16:57:54 / January 16, 2018 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nm60186242. Ids that are associated to the event: nm60186242, us2000ck11. Exact location of event, depth 12.52 km, -89.6829987° West, 36.1686668° North. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:57:54 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Atoka, Munford, Humboldt (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Paragould (c. 26 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri.
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