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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Oceana in West Virginia

Posted by admin on November 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.7717S, -81.6609WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Oceana in West Virginia. All ids that are associated to the event: us700068mh. Unique identifier: us700068mh. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:20:46 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -81.6609 West, latitude 37.7717 North, depth = 5.53 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.53 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 22:20:46 / November 15, 2019 @ 10:20 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Charleston (c. 51 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Beckley (c. 17 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from South Charleston (c. 13 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Saint Albans (c. 11 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bluefield (c. 10 400 pop). Close 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 Richlands, Nitro, Cross Lanes.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 9 km NNW of Oceana, West Virginia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.6609° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNW of Oceana, West Virginia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-15 22:20:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-15 22:44:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 0.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700068mh Id of event.
Event Code 700068mh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700068mh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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