Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 2 km SSE of Buffalo, Ohio

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Buffalo in Ohio on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.583 km (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:09:13 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -81.507 West, latitude 39.8925 North, depth = 0.583 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 14:09:13 / April 29, 2025 @ 2:09 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pvth. Unique identifier: us7000pvth.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Martins Ferry, Dover, Parkersburg (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Parkersburg (c. 31 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Wheeling (c. 28 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Zanesville (c. 25 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from New Philadelphia (c. 17 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Marietta (c. 14 100 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-81.507° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.8925° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.583 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SSE of Buffalo, Ohio	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-29 14:09:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-29 14:36:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	122	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.337	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us7000pvth	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pvth	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pvth,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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