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Minor earthquake 3.27 mag, 3 km NW of Chesapeake, Ohio

Posted by admin on December 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.452666666667S, -82.479333333333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Chesapeake in Ohio. Exact location, longitude -82.479333333333° West, latitude 38.452666666667° North, depth = 23.21 km. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:39:20 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.21 km (14 miles). Unique identifier: se60594971. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzcn, se60594971. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 21:39:20 / December 16, 2024 @ 9:39 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ironville (c. 288 600 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Meads (c. 288 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Charleston (c. 51 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Huntington (c. 49 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ashland (c. 21 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellston, Charleston, South Charleston (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 3 km NW of Chesapeake, Ohio.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.479333333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.452666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NW of Chesapeake, Ohio Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-16 21:39:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 22:01:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 101 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 210 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network se The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,se, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 se60594971 Id of event.
Event Code 60594971 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzcn,se60594971, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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