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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag has occurred near Caruthersville in Missouri


Earthquake location 36.1686668S, -89.6829987WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.6829987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1686668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW of Caruthersville, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-16 16:57:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-16 17:10:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.19 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 200 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 nm60186242 Id of event.
Event Code 60186242 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nm60186242,us2000ck11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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