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Minor earthquake: M3.44 quake has struck near Mifflintown in Pennsylvania

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Mifflintown in Pennsylvania. Exact location of earthquake, -77.5056667° West, 40.4218333° North, depth 26.71 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004089, ld60171121. Id of event: ld60171121. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.71 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:30:57 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/06/19 / 2019-06-13 00:30:57 / June 13, 2019 @ 12:30 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Harrisburg (c. 49 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Altoona (c. 46 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from State College (c. 42 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chambersburg (c. 20 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Carlisle (c. 18 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Elizabethtown, Hanover, Lewisburg.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 18 km SSW of Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.44 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.5056667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4218333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km SSW of Mifflintown, Pennsylvania	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-13 00:30:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-13 02:09:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1063	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.4	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	722	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ld	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,ld,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2605	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	ld60171121	Id of event.
Event Code	60171121	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60004089,ld60171121,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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