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Minor earthquake: M3.62 quake has struck near Fincastle in Tennessee

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Fincastle in Tennessee. Exact location of earthquake, -84.038002° West, 36.4281654° North, depth 31.73 km. The temblor was detected at 14:12:11 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: se60300191. Unique identifier: se60300191. Global time and date of event 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 19:12:11 / January 20, 2020 @ 7:12 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.73 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Knoxville (c. 178 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Oak Ridge (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Maryville (c. 27 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Farragut (c. 20 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sevierville (c. 14 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monticello, Pigeon Forge, Loudon (min 5000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 2 km NNE of Fincastle, Tennessee.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.62 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.038002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4281654° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NNE of Fincastle, Tennessee	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-20 19:12:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-20 19:18:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	40	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.566	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	218	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2992	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	se60300191	Id of event.
Event Code	60300191	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,se60300191,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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