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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Tyndall in South Dakota


Earthquake location 43.0523S, -97.8434WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tyndall in South Dakota. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d5g7. Unique identifier: us6000d5g7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8434 West, latitude 43.0523 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:55:45 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/21 / 2021-01-04 14:55:45 / January 4, 2021 @ 2:55 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mitchell, Yankton (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Mitchell (c. 15 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yankton (c. 14 500 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 one 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNE of Tyndall, South Dakota. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.0523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km NNE of Tyndall, South Dakota Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-04 14:55:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-04 15:06:35 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 148 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 1.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us6000d5g7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d5g7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d5g7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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