Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Chesapeake in Ohio

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Chesapeake in Ohio on Monday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:39:20 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.4387 West, latitude 38.4513 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 21:39:20 / December 16, 2024 @ 9:39 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzcn. Unique identifier: us7000nzcn.

Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ironville (c. 288 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Meads (c. 288 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charleston (c. 51 400 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Huntington (c. 49 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ashland (c. 21 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellston, Charleston, Jackson (min 5000 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 3 km NNE of Chesapeake, Ohio. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.4387° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4513° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NNE 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 21:50:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	34	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	181	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.527	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	us7000nzcn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nzcn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nzcn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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