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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 3 km S of Lilbourn, Missouri


Earthquake location 36.5571671S, -89.6143341WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Lilbourn in Missouri. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.07 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -89.6143341 West, latitude 36.5571671 North, depth = 12.07 km. The temblor was reported at 22:27:05 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/01/19 / 2019-01-12 04:27:05 / January 12, 2019 @ 4:27 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nm60250991. Id of event: nm60250991.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blytheville, Poplar Bluff, Martin (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Poplar Bluff (c. 17 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km S of Lilbourn, Missouri.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.6143341° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5571671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Lilbourn, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-12 04:27:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-12 04:32:37 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 125 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 nm60250991 Id of event.
Event Code 60250991 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nm60250991, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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