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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near East Berlin in Pennsylvania


Earthquake location 39.9253333S, -76.9128333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from East Berlin in Pennsylvania. Global time and date of event 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 01:11:09 / September 15, 2019 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ld60177906. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005gj9, ld60177906. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:11:09 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -76.9128333 West, latitude 39.9253333 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Baltimore (c. 621 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Columbia (c. 99 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ellicott City (c. 65 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Frederick (c. 65 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Lancaster (c. 59 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arbutus, Urbana, Riverside.

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. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 4 km SE of East Berlin, Pennsylvania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.9128333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9253333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of East Berlin, Pennsylvania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-15 01:11:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-15 01:43:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 318 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 252 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ld The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,ld, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ld60177906 Id of event.
Event Code 60177906 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005gj9,ld60177906, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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