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Earthquake: M 2.68 quake strikes near Jackson in Ohio


Earthquake location 39.1596667S, -82.7405WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.68 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Jackson in Ohio. The temblor was reported at 07:41:10 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 21.81 km (14 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-11 12:41:10 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -82.7405 West, latitude 39.1596667 North, depth 21.81 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Lancaster (c. 38 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Athens (c. 23 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Chillicothe (c. 21 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Portsmouth (c. 20 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Washington Court House (c. 14 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hillsboro, Washington Court House, Flatwoods.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.7405° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1596667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW of Jackson, Ohio Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-11 00:41:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-12 14:19:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 110 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network se The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources se A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 se60004208 Id of event.
Event Code 60004208 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS se60004208 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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