Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Elgin in South Carolina

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Elgin in South Carolina on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/25 / 2025-04-26 10:33:01 / April 26, 2025 @ 10:33 am. Exact location, longitude -80.7349° West, latitude 34.1676° North, depth = 2.14 km. Unique identifier: us7000pv7w. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pv7w. The temblor was picked up at 10:33:01 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.14 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Columbia (c. 129 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Sumter (c. 40 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Saint Andrews (c. 21 200 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Lexington (c. 17 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Seven Oaks (c. 15 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orangeburg, Chester, Hartsville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km E of Elgin, South Carolina. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.7349° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km E of Elgin, South Carolina	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-26 10:33:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-26 10:43:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	18	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	128	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.045	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us7000pv7w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pv7w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pv7w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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