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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Berry in Alabama


Earthquake location 33.6926667S, -87.6201667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Berry in Alabama on Thursday. Id of earthquake: se60108238. Event ids that are associated: se60108238. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.34 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/20 / 2020-06-25 17:16:45 / June 25, 2020 @ 5:16 pm. Exact location of event, depth 1.34 km, -87.6201667° West, 33.6926667° North. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:16:45 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Tuscaloosa (c. 90 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bessemer (c. 27 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Northport (c. 23 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hueytown (c. 16 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Jasper (c. 14 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fultondale, Gardendale, Midfield.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NNW of Berry, Alabama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.6201667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.6926667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NNW of Berry, Alabama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-25 17:16:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-25 17:40:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 127 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6195 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 se60108238 Id of event.
Event Code 60108238 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,se60108238, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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