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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 2 km NW of Somonauk, Illinois

Posted by admin on July 15, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.6477S, -88.7058WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Somonauk in Illinois. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.785 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -88.7058° West, 41.6477° North, depth 9.785 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:53:54 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000mzav. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mzav. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/24 / 2024-07-15 07:53:54 / July 15, 2024 @ 7:53 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Robbins, Hawthorn Woods (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Aurora (c. 197 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rockford (c. 152 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Joliet (c. 147 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Naperville (c. 141 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Elgin (c. 108 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NW of Somonauk, Illinois. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.7058° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.785 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW of Somonauk, Illinois Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-15 07:53:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-15 08:06:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 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 182 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 us7000mzav Id of event.
Event Code 7000mzav An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mzav, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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