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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Wing in United Kingdom


Earthquake location 51.8892S, -0.7612WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Wing in United Kingdom. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bzt0. Id of event: us6000bzt0. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/09/20 / 2020-09-22 08:32:14 / September 22, 2020 @ 8:32 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:32:14 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -0.7612° West, 51.8892° North, depth 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bexley, Wigston Magna, Milford. Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (39 miles) from City of London (c. 7 556 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from London (c. 7 556 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Islington (c. 319 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Coventry (c. 308 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Reading (c. 244 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km WSW of Wing, United Kingdom.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -0.7612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8892° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km WSW of Wing, United Kingdom Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-22 08:32:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-22 20:56:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 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 154 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 3.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us6000bzt0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bzt0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bzt0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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