Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near Lancaster in Kentucky

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lancaster in Kentucky. The temblor was picked up at 17:47:10 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -84.458 West, latitude 37.661666666667 North, depth = 8.56 km. Unique identifier: se60616506. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000rl7u, se60616506. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.56 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/25 / 2025-12-28 17:47:10 / December 28, 2025 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Lexington-Fayette (c. 295 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Lexington (c. 225 400 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Richmond (c. 31 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Georgetown (c. 29 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Nicholasville (c. 28 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lebanon, Frankfort, London (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, 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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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: 11 km ENE of Lancaster, Kentucky. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.11 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.458° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.661666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km ENE of Lancaster, Kentucky	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-28 17:47:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-28 18:11:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	56	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	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	177	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	se	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,se,	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	0.374	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	se60616506	Id of event.
Event Code	60616506	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rl7u,se60616506,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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