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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Cranleigh in United Kingdom


Earthquake location 51.1494S, -0.4457WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cranleigh in United Kingdom on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 10:53:24 / July 5, 2018 @ 10:53 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fxc7. Id of event: us2000fxc7. The temblor was detected at 10:53:24 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -0.4457° West, 51.1494° North.

Close country/countries, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rainham, Saint Leonards-on-Sea, Marchwood (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from London (c. 7 556 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from City of London (c. 7 556 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Islington (c. 319 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Southampton (c. 246 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Reading (c. 244 100 pop).

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 struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Cranleigh, United Kingdom. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -0.4457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Cranleigh, United Kingdom Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-05 10:53:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-05 11:22:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 134 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.588 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000fxc7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000fxc7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fxc7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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