Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag strikes near Sparta in North Carolina

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sparta in North Carolina. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: se60305067. Id of event: se60305067. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.04 km (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/20 / 2020-08-11 20:45:27 / August 11, 2020 @ 8:45 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:45:27 / 8:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -81.1214981° West, latitude 36.465332° North, depth = 0.04 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Stephens, Statesville, Sawmills (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Statesville (c. 24 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Lenoir (c. 18 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Boone (c. 17 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lewisville (c. 12 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mount Airy (c. 10 400 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km S of Sparta, North Carolina.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-81.1214981° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.465332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km S of Sparta, North Carolina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-11 20:45:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-11 20:51:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	156	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	se60305067	Id of event.
Event Code	60305067	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60305067,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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