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Earthquake: M 2.9 quake strikes near Lake in the Hills in Illinois

Posted by admin on March 25, 2015 2 Comments

Earthquake location 42.1849S, -88.3572WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (mg/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Lake in the Hills in Illinois. The temblor was reported at 18:08:51 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 9.89 km (6 miles). Global time of event 25/03/15 / 2015-03-25 23:08:51 / March 25, 2015 @ 11:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -88.3572 West, latitude 42.1849 North, depth 9.89 km, unique identifier, us10001qrx.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Chicago (c. 2 695 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Aurora (c. 197 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Rockford (c. 152 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Joliet (c. 147 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Naperville (c. 141 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alsip, Crestwood, Joliet.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.3572° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.1849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km W of Lake in the Hills, Illinois Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-03-25 23:08:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-25 23:46:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 79 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 159 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us10001qrx Id of event.
Event Code 10001qrx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10001qrx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Scott

    I was yelling at the rugrat to stop running and she was in her bed watching TV! Then she comes out and says “Daddy whats moving?” I told her to go watch TV and stop jumping. She denied it of course. 5min. later I see there was an earthquake 1/2 mile away!

    March 26, 2015
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  2. Ronald and Renate Wiltgen

    Ron and I felt the house shake for a second and Ron thought that I fell and knocked something over.

    March 26, 2015
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