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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Eutaw in Alabama


Earthquake location 32.9691S, -88.0469WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Eutaw in Alabama on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 06:44:07 / June 30, 2015 @ 6:44 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002mia. Unique identifier: us10002mia. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:44:07 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -88.0469° West, latitude 32.9691° North, depth = 5 km.

The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Tuscaloosa (c. 90 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Columbus (c. 23 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Northport (c. 23 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Demopolis (c. 7 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Columbus, Demopolis, Northport (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 20 km NW of Eutaw, Alabama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.0469° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NW of Eutaw, Alabama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-30 06:44:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 06:56:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.37 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 223 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us10002mia Id of event.
Event Code 10002mia An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mia, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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