Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Morristown in Tennessee

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Morristown in Tennessee. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 22:32:08 / April 29, 2018 @ 10:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.6 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: se60197892. Ids that are associated to the event: se60197892, us1000dugy. Exact location of event, depth 25.6 km, -83.4035034° West, 36.3043327° North. The temblor was detected at 17:32:08 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alcoa, Eagleton Village, Mount Carmel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Knoxville (c. 178 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Greeneville (c. 15 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Sevierville (c. 14 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Seymour (c. 10 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-83.4035034° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3043327° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NW of Morristown, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-29 22:32:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-29 22:39:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	123	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06277	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	se60197892	Id of event.
Event Code	60197892	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60197892,us1000dugy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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