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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Warton in United Kingdom

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Earthquake location 54.1459S, -2.7084WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Warton in United Kingdom. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -2.7084 West, latitude 54.1459 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/25 / 2025-12-03 23:23:32 / December 3, 2025 @ 11:23 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rff7. Id of event: us7000rff7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:23:32 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Manchester (c. 395 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bradford (c. 299 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Preston (c. 190 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Huddersfield (c. 149 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Blackpool (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Heckmondwike, Longsight, Ashton-under-Lyne. 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. 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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km E of Warton, United Kingdom.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -2.7084° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km E of Warton, 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 2025-12-03 23:23:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-03 23:49:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 182 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 1.208 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000rff7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rff7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rff7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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