Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Bowdle in South Dakota

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 km NNW of Bowdle, South Dakota (7 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000cpdp. Event ids that are associated: us7000cpdp. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -99.7259 West, latitude 45.5534 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/20 / 2020-12-09 05:59:26 / December 9, 2020 @ 5:59 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:59:26 / 5:59 am (local time epicenter).

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 was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 12 km NNW of Bowdle, South Dakota.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-99.7259° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.5534° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NNW of Bowdle, South Dakota	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-09 05:59:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-09 06:10:26	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	158	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	1.223	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	us7000cpdp	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cpdp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cpdp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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