Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Dyersburg in Tennessee

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Dyersburg in Tennessee. Id of earthquake: us7000plep. Event ids that are associated: us7000plep. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:23:40 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.211 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -89.498° West, 36.0702° North, depth 11.211 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 20:23:40 / March 20, 2025 @ 8:23 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Union City (c. 10 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Munford, Atoka, Milan. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km WNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.498° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0702° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.211 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km WNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-20 20:23:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 20:35:27	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	2.7	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.031	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us7000plep	Id of event.
Event Code	7000plep	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000plep,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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