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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Bolivar in Pennsylvania


Earthquake location 40.3837S, -79.2126WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Bolivar in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 04:30:26 / October 6, 2020 @ 4:30 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -79.2126° West, 40.3837° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:30:26 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000c5z8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c5z8.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Franklin Park, Maple Glen, Bridgeville. Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Pittsburgh (c. 305 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Altoona (c. 46 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Penn Hills (c. 44 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mount Lebanon (c. 32 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bethel Park (c. 32 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 0 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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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. 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: 5 km WSW of Bolivar, Pennsylvania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.2126° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3837° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WSW of Bolivar, Pennsylvania Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-06 04:30:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-06 21:04:08 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 129 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 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us6000c5z8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5z8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5z8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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