Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Hicksville in Ohio

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Hicksville in Ohio on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/24 / 2024-12-29 11:46:48 / December 29, 2024 @ 11:46 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.482 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -84.7567 West, latitude 41.2803 North, depth = 9.482 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pg9z. Unique identifier: us6000pg9z. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:46:48 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Fort Wayne (c. 253 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Huntington (c. 17 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Defiance (c. 16 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from New Haven (c. 14 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Auburn (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Huntington, Coldwater, Hillsdale (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 SSE of Hicksville, Ohio.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.7567° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.2803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.482 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km SSE of Hicksville, Ohio	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-29 11:46:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-29 11:54:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	130	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.562	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us6000pg9z	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pg9z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pg9z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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