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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Dorking in United Kingdom


Earthquake location 51.2272S, -0.2763WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Dorking in United Kingdom. Unique identifier: us2000jpea. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jpea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/02/19 / 2019-02-27 03:42:21 / February 27, 2019 @ 3:42 am. Exact location, longitude -0.2763° West, latitude 51.2272° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:42:21 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from London (c. 7 556 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from City of London (c. 7 556 900 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Islington (c. 319 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Reading (c. 244 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bexley (c. 228 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stansted, Faversham, Leighton Buzzard (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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 E of Dorking, United Kingdom.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -0.2763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E of Dorking, 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 2019-02-27 03:42:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-27 05:31:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.2 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 172 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 2.96 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jpea Id of event.
Event Code 2000jpea An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jpea, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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