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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake strikes near Decatur in Tennessee

Posted by admin on March 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5603333S, -84.6566667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (mg/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Decatur in Tennessee. The temblor was reported at 23:21:09 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 16.74 km (10 miles). Global time of event 26/03/15 / 2015-03-26 03:21:09 / March 26, 2015 @ 3:21 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -84.6566667 West, latitude 35.5603333 North, depth 16.74 km, unique identifier, se60072787.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from East Chattanooga (c. 154 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Cleveland (c. 41 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Oak Ridge (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Maryville (c. 27 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Farragut (c. 20 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was East Brainerd, East Chattanooga, Clinton.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.6566667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5603333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE of Decatur, Tennessee Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-03-26 03:21:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-26 12:13:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 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 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 0.1555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 se60072787 Id of event.
Event Code 60072787 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,se60072787, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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