Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Lancaster in Kentucky

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lancaster in Kentucky. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.788 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/25 / 2025-12-28 17:47:10 / December 28, 2025 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 8.788 km, -84.4386° West, 37.6729° North. The temblor was picked up at 17:47:10 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000rl7u. Unique identifier: us7000rl7u.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Lexington-Fayette (c. 295 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Lexington (c. 225 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Richmond (c. 31 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Georgetown (c. 29 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Nicholasville (c. 28 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lebanon, Frankfort, London (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 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 earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km ENE of Lancaster, Kentucky.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.4386° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6729° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.788 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 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 17:56:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	158	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	us7000rl7u	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rl7u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rl7u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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