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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Ormond-by-the-Sea in Florida


Earthquake location 29.9906S, -79.4485WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 172 km ENE of Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida (107 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:20:29 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0 km, -79.4485° West, 29.9906° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gj9. Id of event: us20006gj9. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/16 / 2016-06-23 17:20:29 / June 23, 2016 @ 5:20 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 172 km ENE of Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.4485° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.9906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172km ENE of Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-23 17:20:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-21 21:18:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 0 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 222 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 2.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type experimental explosion Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20006gj9 Id of event.
Event Code 20006gj9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gj9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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