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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Flomaton in Alabama


Earthquake location 31.0757S, -87.219WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Flomaton in Alabama on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:11:00 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -87.219° West, 31.0757° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/19 / 2019-04-11 20:11:00 / April 11, 2019 @ 8:11 pm. Unique identifier: us700034pm. Ids that are associated to the event: us700034pm.

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from East Pensacola Heights (c. 54 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Pensacola (c. 51 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ferry Pass (c. 28 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cantonment (c. 26 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bellview (c. 23 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Warrington, Robertsdale, Andalusia (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km NNE of Flomaton, Alabama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.219° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNE of Flomaton, Alabama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-11 20:11:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-11 23:28:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 121 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 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us700034pm Id of event.
Event Code 700034pm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700034pm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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