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Minor earthquake 3.11 mag, 4 km SW of Lilbourn, Missouri


Earthquake location 36.5648346S, -89.6493301WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Lilbourn in Missouri. Exact location, longitude -89.6493301° West, latitude 36.5648346° North, depth = 9.65 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 08:47:45 / September 27, 2019 @ 8:47 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.65 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nm60287956, us70005max. Id of event: nm60287956. The 3.11-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:47:45 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Dyersburg (c. 17 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Poplar Bluff (c. 17 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Sikeston (c. 16 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Blytheville (c. 15 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Martin (c. 11 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Martin, Blytheville, Poplar Bluff (min 5000 pop).

Each 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. 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 occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 4 km SW of Lilbourn, Missouri. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.6493301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5648346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of Lilbourn, Missouri Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-27 08:47:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 08:55:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 149 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nm The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nm,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nm60287956 Id of event.
Event Code 60287956 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nm60287956,us70005max, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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