A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ridgely in Tennessee on Friday. Exact location, longitude -89.3998337° West, latitude 36.2571678° North, depth = 7.81 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 18:03:12 / April 10, 2020 @ 6:03 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.81 km (5 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:03:12 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nm60286767. Unique identifier: nm60286767.
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 Brownsville, Charleston, Sikeston. Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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