Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag has occurred near Sewanee in Tennessee

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Sewanee in Tennessee. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.83 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -85.8843307 West, latitude 35.1495018 North, depth = 10.83 km. The 3.28-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:33:14 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 08:33:14 / May 10, 2020 @ 8:33 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: se60316866. Id of event: se60316866.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Huntsville (c. 180 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Chattanooga (c. 167 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from East Chattanooga (c. 154 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from East Ridge (c. 21 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Shelbyville (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby 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 Fort Payne, Huntsville, Collegedale.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SSE of Sewanee, Tennessee. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-85.8843307° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1495018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSE of Sewanee, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-10 08:33:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-10 08:38:55	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	166	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07698	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	se60316866	Id of event.
Event Code	60316866	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60316866,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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