Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Gardiner in Maine

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Gardiner in Maine. Global time and date of event 28/07/24 / 2024-07-28 18:50:18 / July 28, 2024 @ 6:50 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:50:18 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000ngj3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ngj3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.8623 West, latitude 44.2355 North, depth = 8.075 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.075 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Portland Gardens, Westbrook, South Portland (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Portland (c. 66 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Lewiston (c. 36 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from South Portland (c. 25 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from South Portland Gardens (c. 23 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Auburn (c. 23 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km W of Gardiner, Maine. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.8623° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.2355° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.075 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km W of Gardiner, Maine	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-28 18:50:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-28 18:57:17	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.359	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us6000ngj3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ngj3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ngj3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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