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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake strikes near Manila in Arkansas


Earthquake location 35.8072S, -90.1385WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (mg/mb) has striked on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Manila in Arkansas. The temblor was reported at 05:07:26 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-24 11:07:26 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -90.1385 West, latitude 35.8072 North, depth 0.1 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Memphis (c. 646 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Jonesboro (c. 67 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bartlett (c. 54 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from West Memphis (c. 26 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Paragould (c. 26 100 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakeland, West Memphis, Memphis.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.1385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Manila, Arkansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-24 23:07:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-24 23:15:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 nm A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1077978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46.799996256 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 nm60087511 Id of event.
Event Code 60087511 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nm60087511 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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