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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Aberfeldy in United Kingdom

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Aberfeldy in United Kingdom on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -4.4087° West, 56.5875° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000ric0. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ric0. Global time and date of event 20/10/25 / 2025-10-20 17:06:42 / October 20, 2025 @ 5:06 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:06:42 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Glasgow (c. 610 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Paisley (c. 73 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cumbernauld (c. 49 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Perth (c. 43 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Greenock (c. 43 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Coatbridge (c. 41 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Inverkeithing, Glenrothes, Uddingston. Close country/countries, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km W of Aberfeldy, United Kingdom. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-4.4087° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.5875° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km W of Aberfeldy, United Kingdom	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-20 17:06:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-20 18:36:27	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	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	236	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.443	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	204	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000ric0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ric0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ric0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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