Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag strikes near Dyersburg in Tennessee

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Dyersburg in Tennessee. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:56:54 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.55 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.4381638 West, latitude 36.1343346 North, depth = 14.55 km. Global time and date of event 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 10:56:54 / April 24, 2019 @ 10:56 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nm60268341. Unique identifier: nm60268341.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sikeston, Munford, Atoka (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Jackson (c. 65 200 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km NNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.58 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.4381638° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1343346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-24 10:56:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-24 11:05:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.162	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	201	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05419	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	nm60268341	Id of event.
Event Code	60268341	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60268341,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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