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Magnitude 3.6 WESTERN KENTUCKY
2005 June 20 12:21:42 UTC
Advanced National Seismic System ^
| 2005 June 20 12:21:42 UTC
| Advanced National Seismic System
Posted on 06/20/2005 8:05:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Recent Earthquake Activity in the USA
Magnitude 3.6 - WESTERN KENTUCKY
2005 June 20 12:21:42 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network
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A minor earthquake occurred at 12:21:42 (UTC) on Monday, June 20, 2005. The magnitude 3.6 event has been located in WESTERN KENTUCKY. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 21 km (13 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
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![Small globe showing earthquake](/recenteqsUS/Quakes/-89_37_globe.jpg)
![Small map showing earthquake](http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/recent/nm747_small.gif)
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Magnitude |
3.6 |
Date-Time |
Monday, June 20, 2005 at 12:21:42 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
Monday, June 20, 2005 at 7:21:42 AM = local time at epicenter
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Location |
36.920°N, 89.000°W |
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Depth |
21.1 km (13.1 miles) |
Region |
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WESTERN KENTUCKY |
Distances |
4 km (3 miles) SW (231°) from Blandville, KY
5 km (3 miles) N (10°) from Bardwell, KY 9 km (6 miles) SE (124°) from Wickliffe, KY 37 km (23 miles) WSW (243°) from Paducah, KY 152 km (94 miles) WNW (286°) from Clarksville, TN 219 km (136 miles) SSE (150°) from St. Louis, MO
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Location Uncertainty |
horizontal +/- 0.6 km (0.4 miles); depth +/- 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
Parameters |
Nst= 26, Nph= 26, Dmin=16 km, Rmss=0.27 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=D |
Source |
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Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network
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Event ID |
nm747 |
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Felt Reports |
Felt (IV) at Bardwell, Barlow, Cunningham, Fancy Farm, Hickory, Wickliffe and Wingo; (III) at Calvert City, Kevil, La Center, Mayfield, Paducah and West Paducah. Also felt (IV) at Cairo, Illinois and (III) at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Felt in parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. |
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: Kentucky; US: Missouri; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: earthquake; newmadrid
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To: Das Outsider
What with all of the seismic activity out west over the last two weeks, why, the conspiracy kooks and ecofascists will be in full catastrophe mode!
Well, it's the apocalyptikooks that get the most jazzed.
In the grand scheme of things there really hasn't been all that much seismic activity in the world over the last two weeks.
It's just that prior to that seismic activity was really really really low, below average, in the couple months before those few weeks.
To: RonPaulLives; SLB
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:22:31 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If it disturbed the bourbon I'm gonna be pissed
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:23:35 PM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: Strategerist
How do you adjust UTC time to CST time?
To: Strategerist; All
New Madrid's "Big One" was expected to occur back in '90. I say "expected" because only one source, Browning, had predicted it. Very few, if any, real seismologists bought it, but the public did. Incidentally, some Jehovah's Witnesses, with their penchant for predicting the end of the world down to the minute, also fell for the rejected prophecy. Anybody remember that?
D.O.
To: Old Sarge
Sarge, New Madrid had a quake around 1811 that was the new nations largest. Estimated (best guess) 8.0.
3.6 wouldn't knock a little girl off stride in a hopscotch game. Still, temblors in the East worry the folks there.
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:27:17 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(I once opposed keelhauling but recently have come to my senses.)
To: BIGLOOK
The FEMA folks I worked with while with DHS, always watched for anything related with New Madrid. It's the thing to do, for that sleeping monster.
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:29:31 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
To: Strategerist
It's just that prior to that seismic activity was really really really low, below average, in the couple months before those few weeks.
You'll recall that activity in California was quite active on an almost daily basis for several years from--don't quote me on this--the mid- to late-80's into the early 90's. At least that's the period that sticks out for me.
To: BIGLOOK; SmithL
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
UTC is 6 hours ahead of CST.
5 hours Daylight time, I believe. 12:00 UTC is 6 am cST or 5 AM Central Daylight time
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:30:14 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: BIGLOOK
Estimated (best guess) 8.0. That would be the low end estimate. Estimates I have seen have been 8.8 to 9.0 - A huge difference.
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:31:01 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
How do you adjust UTC time to CST time?
During Daylight savings it's GMT-6 hours; outside of Daylight Savings it's GMT-5 hours.
To: Das Outsider
I say "expected" because only one source, Browning, had predicted it. Very few, if any, real seismologists bought it, but the public did.
No legitimate scientists bought it at all; Browning was essentially a kook; not a scrap of training in seismology or geology.
Like many bogus predictors, his crap prediction was based on lunar tidal forces. Sadly the media gave it a great deal of attention.
To: Knitting A Conundrum; Strategerist
OK, thanks, so that would be 8 hours PST during Summer and 7 hours during winter....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It depends on what the meaning of time "is is "
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:38:24 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Father of the Beeber)
To: Graybeard58
That would be the low end estimate. Estimates I have seen have been 8.8 to 9.0 - A huge difference.
Several recent papers have revised the magnitude estimates downward; basically no seismologists believe any of the three quakes were anywhere remotely close to Magnitude 9.
NEIC lists the largest of the New Madrid quakes at 8.1 now.
I've seen a few papers where some have it down in the high sevens; it MIGHT not have even been the largest quake in the lower 48, surpassed by either the 1857 or 1906 quakes in CA.
To: Graybeard58
The one in February of 1812 was close to MSn 9.0. Its predecessors ranged between 8 and 8.5.
To: Graybeard58
No Richter scale then....but I believe there was another scale that measured the amount of destruction and the reaction of the population to the event. I forget what it was called. But I do recall that the upper range (above an 8.0 on the Richter scale) caused mass panic.
The 1811 quake at New Madrid changed the course of the Big Muddy. I've no doubt it also caused mass panic.
The difference between 8.0 and (low ball) 8.8 is huge; I agree.
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:49:07 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(I once opposed keelhauling but recently have come to my senses.)
To: Brad's Gramma
We hicks in Ky have a fault all our own.
California is not the only place with faults.
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:54:16 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: inkling
The distilleries are just fine.
They are mostly in the center of the state.
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:55:08 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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