Minor earthquake: M3.42 quake has struck near Covington in Tennessee

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Covington in Tennessee on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -89.6784973° West, 35.6591682° North, depth 12.74 km. The temblor was detected at 08:26:15 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 13:26:15 / August 25, 2015 @ 1:26 pm. Unique identifier: nm60087957. Ids that are associated to the event: nm60087957. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.74 km (8 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Memphis (c. 646 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from New South Memphis (c. 641 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Jackson (c. 65 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Bartlett (c. 54 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Southaven (c. 49 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Southaven, Olive Branch, Jackson (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNW of Covington, Tennessee. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.6784973° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6591682° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNW of Covington, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-25 13:26:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-25 13:34:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	181	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3074	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	nm60087957	Id of event.
Event Code	60087957	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60087957,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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