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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag strikes near Jefferson City in Tennessee


Earthquake location 36.1796684S, -83.4101639WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jefferson City in Tennessee. Id of earthquake: se60294177. Event ids that are associated: se60294177. Global time and date of event 04/06/20 / 2020-06-04 21:08:13 / June 4, 2020 @ 9:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.73 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:08:13 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -83.4101639 West, latitude 36.1796684 North, depth = 11.73 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oak Ridge, Mount Carmel, Farragut. Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Knoxville (c. 178 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Oak Ridge (c. 29 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Morristown (c. 29 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Maryville (c. 27 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Farragut (c. 20 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km NE of Jefferson City, Tennessee. This information 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 -83.4101639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1796684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NE of Jefferson City, Tennessee Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-04 21:08:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-04 21:16:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 se60294177 Id of event.
Event Code 60294177 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,se60294177, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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