Minor earthquake, 3.22000003 mag has occurred near Caruthersville in Missouri

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22000003 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Caruthersville in Missouri. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 15:52:08 / November 16, 2024 @ 3:52 pm. Exact location, longitude -89.661331176758° West, latitude 36.180667877197° North, depth = 9.1199998855591 km. The temblor was detected at 15:52:08 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nm60593941. Unique identifier: nm60593941. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.1199998855591 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Paragould (c. 26 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Humboldt, Sikeston, Paragould (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 SSW of Caruthersville, Missouri.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22000003 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.661331176758° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.180667877197° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.1199998855591 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km SSW of Caruthersville, Missouri	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-16 15:52:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-16 15:59:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	161	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.159999996 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	nm60593941	Id of event.
Event Code	60593941	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60593941,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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