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Minor earthquake: M3.33 quake has struck near Maynardville in Tennessee


Earthquake location 36.296833S, -83.7396698WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maynardville in Tennessee. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/03/19 / 2019-03-05 20:56:02 / March 5, 2019 @ 8:56 pm. Event id: se60233907. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: se60233907, us1000jaz5. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:56:02 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.77 km (9 miles). Exact location, longitude -83.7396698° West, latitude 36.296833° North, depth = 14.77 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corbin, Lenoir City, Maryville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Knoxville (c. 178 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Oak Ridge (c. 29 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Maryville (c. 27 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Farragut (c. 20 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km ENE of Maynardville, Tennessee.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.7396698° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.296833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ENE of Maynardville, Tennessee Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-05 20:56:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-05 21:08:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 56 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 194 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 se60233907 Id of event.
Event Code 60233907 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,se60233907,us1000jaz5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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