Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Blytheville in Arkansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Blytheville in Arkansas on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 18:17:00 / January 15, 2021 @ 6:17 pm. Unique identifier: nm60340816. Ids that are associated to the event: nm60340816. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.16 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 11.16 km, -89.921669° West, 35.9441681° North. The temblor was picked up at 18:17:00 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arlington, Jonesboro, Brownsville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Jonesboro (c. 67 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Paragould (c. 26 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arlington (c. 11 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 1 km N of Blytheville, Arkansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.921669° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9441681° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km N of Blytheville, Arkansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-15 18:17:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-15 18:22:55	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	3.8	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	124	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nm	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nm,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1511	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	nm60340816	Id of event.
Event Code	60340816	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60340816,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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