Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Lilbourn in Missouri

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Lilbourn in Missouri on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: nm60096437. Event ids that are associated: nm60096437. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:08:53 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.66 km, -89.6018333° West, 36.537° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.66 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 07:08:53 / November 25, 2015 @ 7:08 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Poplar Bluff (c. 17 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poplar Bluff, Blytheville, Martin.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km S of Lilbourn, Missouri. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.6018333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.537° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km S of Lilbourn, Missouri	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-25 07:08:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-25 07:25:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	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	139	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03934	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	nm60096437	Id of event.
Event Code	60096437	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nm60096437,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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