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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near East Berlin in Pennsylvania

Posted by admin on September 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.9107S, -76.934WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from East Berlin in Pennsylvania. Global time and date of event 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 01:11:08 / September 15, 2019 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -76.934° West, 39.9107° North. Unique identifier: us70005gj9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005gj9. The temblor was picked up at 20:11:08 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Baltimore (c. 621 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Columbia (c. 99 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ellicott City (c. 65 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Frederick (c. 65 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Lancaster (c. 59 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Middle River, Riverside, Arbutus.

There are an estimated 130,000 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 has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km SE of East Berlin, Pennsylvania.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9107° 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 01:11:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-15 01:22:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 139 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 0.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us70005gj9 Id of event.
Event Code 70005gj9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005gj9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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