Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Ridgely in Tennessee

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Ridgely in Tennessee. Global time and date of event 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 05:07:54 / October 27, 2019 @ 5:07 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nm60291511. Event ids that are associated: nm60291511. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.68 km (7 miles). The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:07:54 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.68 km, -89.5008316° West, 36.2878342° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Milan, Osceola, Humboldt (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NNW of Ridgely, Tennessee. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.5008316° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2878342° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NNW of Ridgely, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-27 05:07:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-27 05:13:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	132	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.173	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	nm60291511	Id of event.
Event Code	60291511	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60291511,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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