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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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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: Howlin; Brad's Gramma
From School Library Journal
YA-When the New Madrid Fault Zone, which has produced three of the largest earthquakes on record in North America, begins to show signs of reawakening, geologist John Atkins and seismologist Elizabeth Holleran join forces with other experts to try to prevent another series of disasters. After two major earthquakes devastate the Midwest along the Mississippi riverbed, the team of specialists battles major fires, looting, aftershocks, and frenzied survivors in a breakneck race to prevent a third, even larger quake. Their answer is to detonate an atomic bomb in an old mine shaft, which will set off 5.0-6.0 quakes, but hopefully dissipate the stress building into a quake even larger than 8.4. In the frantic rush to vacate the mine tunnel, the team members battle not only mine fires, deadly gases, and falling shafts, but also one another. Afterward, what remains of the middle part of the United States begins the arduous task of cleaning up. The story is filled with facts about geology, tectonics, and physics, but the information never gets in the way of the action. The characters scurry through the endless challenges and serve more to join sequences of the novel together than to provide any meaningful relationship, although the two scientists fall in love during the melee. Offering lots of excitement and the inherent thrill typical of a survival story, the book will appeal to YAs who enjoy authors such as Michael Crichton and the team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Boy this one has it all.....atomic bombs......maybe we need to try that out here.....
To: skinkinthegrass; RonPaulLives
I hate it when I sleep through the excitement.
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posted on
06/21/2005 2:56:35 AM PDT
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SLB
("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
To: SLB
..yeah, back in 1980...I was in a movie theater, watching Empire Strikes Back, during in asteroid evasion/chase...thats when the Mayfield, Ky. "Event" (Magnitude 5.3) happened. You could feeling the building "move/creak"; no one screamed, no one got-up & ran, we just sat there marveling @ "the marvelous Special Effects" of the movie. :D
63
posted on
06/21/2005 7:46:31 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: SLB
..yeah, back in 1980...I was in a movie theater, watching Empire Strikes Back, during in asteroid evasion/chase...thats when the Mayfield, Ky. "Event" (Magnitude 5.3) happened. You could feeling the building "move/creak"; no one screamed, no one got-up & ran, we just sat there marveling @ "the marvelous Special Effects" of the movie. :D
64
posted on
06/21/2005 7:47:01 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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