Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near La Center in Kentucky

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from La Center in Kentucky. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 06:12:09 / May 1, 2016 @ 6:12 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.37 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:12:09 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -89.0195° West, latitude 37.2016° North, depth = 13.37 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005ctd. Id of event: us10005ctd.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Frankfort, Harrisburg, Murphysboro (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Cape Girardeau (c. 37 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carbondale (c. 25 900 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Paducah (c. 25 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Marion (c. 17 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Jackson (c. 13 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km NNW of La Center, Kentucky.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-89.0195° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NNW of La Center, Kentucky	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-01 06:12:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-01 06:29:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	78	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.9	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.09	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	227	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	0.351	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us10005ctd	Id of event.
Event Code	10005ctd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005ctd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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