Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag strikes near Alcoa in Tennessee

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Alcoa in Tennessee. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 09:00:26 / January 14, 2019 @ 9:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -83.9623337 West, latitude 35.7803345 North, depth = 12.73 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.73 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:00:26 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). Event id: se60251261. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: se60251261.

Event epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Knoxville (c. 178 900 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Oak Ridge (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Maryville (c. 27 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Farragut (c. 20 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morristown, Newport, LaFollette (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 1 km SE of Alcoa, Tennessee.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.03 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-83.9623337° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7803345° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SE of Alcoa, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-14 09:00:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-14 09:04:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	141	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2184	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	se60251261	Id of event.
Event Code	60251261	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60251261,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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