Minor earthquake 3.02 mag, 10 km W of New Tazewell, Tennessee

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from New Tazewell in Tennessee. Global time and date of event 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 15:23:28 / July 17, 2019 @ 3:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -83.7143326° West, 36.4263344° North, depth 17.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.95 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:23:28 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: se60281976. Ids that are associated to the event: se60281976.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maryville, Alcoa, Eagleton Village. Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Knoxville (c. 178 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Oak Ridge (c. 29 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Maryville (c. 27 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Farragut (c. 20 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km W of New Tazewell, Tennessee.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-83.7143326° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4263344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km W of New Tazewell, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-17 15:23:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-17 15:31:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1775	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	se60281976	Id of event.
Event Code	60281976	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60281976,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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