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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 4 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio

Posted by admin on May 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.8656S, -81.5424WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Pleasant City in Ohio. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:13:43 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/25 / 2025-05-09 03:13:43 / May 9, 2025 @ 3:13 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -81.5424° West, 39.8656° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us7000py59. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000py59.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Newark (c. 47 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Parkersburg (c. 31 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Wheeling (c. 28 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Zanesville (c. 25 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Athens (c. 23 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Athens, Newark, Nelsonville (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 4 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.5424° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-09 03:13:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-09 03:22:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 132 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 33 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 0.76 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 us7000py59 Id of event.
Event Code 7000py59 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000py59, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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