Minor earthquake 2.81999993 mag, 8 km WNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81999993 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Dyersburg in Tennessee. Global time and date of event 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 20:23:40 / March 20, 2025 @ 8:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -89.475166320801° West, 36.064834594727° North, depth 10.020000457764 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.020000457764 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:23:40 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000plep, nm60601281. Id of event: nm60601281.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Munford, Atoka, Milan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kennett (c. 10 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Union City (c. 10 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has occurred nearby.

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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: 8 km WNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81999993 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.475166320801° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.064834594727° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.020000457764 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 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 20:41:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	124	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	,us,nm,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	26	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	0.0799999982 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	nm60601281	Id of event.
Event Code	60601281	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000plep,nm60601281,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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