Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Richlands in Virginia

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Richlands in Virginia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ccep. Id of event: us7000ccep. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 07:35:35 / November 9, 2020 @ 7:35 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:35:35 / 7:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -81.8203 West, latitude 37.1819 North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Bristol (c. 26 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bristol (c. 17 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Bluefield (c. 10 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Wytheville (c. 8 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Abingdon (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bristol, Bristol, Wytheville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 10 km NNW of Richlands, Virginia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-81.8203° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1819° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NNW of Richlands, Virginia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-09 07:35:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-09 07:50:28	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	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	0.659	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us7000ccep	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ccep	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ccep,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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