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Magnitude 3.1 - LAKE ERIE, OHIO

2008 January 09 01:34:46 UTC

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Magnitude

3.1

Date-Time

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 01:34:46 UTC

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 at 08:34:46 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location

41.730°N, 81.430°W

Depth

5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program

Region

LAKE ERIE, OHIO

Distances

6 km (4 miles) WNW (289°) from Mentor-on-the-Lake, OH

7 km (5 miles) N (8°) from Timberlake, OH

8 km (5 miles) N (3°) from Eastlake, OH

34 km (21 miles) NE (36°) from Cleveland, OH

156 km (97 miles) ESE (117°) from Detroit, MI

Location
Uncertainty

Error estimate not available

Parameters

Nst= 10, Nph= 10, Dmin=127.1 km, Rmss=0 sec, Gp=101°,
M-type=local
magnitude (ML), Version=S

Source

OhioSeis Network, Ohio
Geological Survey, Columbus, USA

Event
ID

us2008lzab

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Felt in the Cleveland-Erie-Warren area.

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EARTHQUAKES IN THE NORTHEAST OHIO SEISMIC ZONE
The Northeast Ohio
seismic zone has had moderately frequent earthquakes at least since the first
one was reported in 1823. The largest earthquake (magnitude 4.8) caused damage
in 1986 in northeasternmost Ohio, and the most recent damaging shock (magnitude
4.5) occurred in 1998 at the seismic zone's eastern edge in northwestern
Pennsylvania. Earthquakes too small to cause damage are felt two or three times
per decade.

Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in
the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the
Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than
a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S.
earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from
where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A
magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300
mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25
mi).

FAULTS
Earthquakes everywhere occur on faults within bedrock,
usually miles deep. Most of the seismic zone's bedrock was formed as several
generations of mountains rose and were eroded down again over the last billion
or more years.

At well-studied plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault system in
California, often scientists can determine the name of the specific fault that
is responsible for an earthquake. In contrast, east of the Rocky Mountains this
is rarely the case. The Northeast Ohio seismic zone is far from the nearest
plate boundaries, which are in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and in the
Caribbean Sea. The seismic zone is laced with known faults but numerous smaller
or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly
located at earthquake depths. Accordingly, few, if any, earthquakes in the
seismic zone can be linked to named faults. It is difficult to determine if a
known fault is still active and could slip and cause an earthquake. As in most
other areas east of the Rockies, the best guide to earthquake hazards in the
Northeast Ohio seismic zone is the earthquakes themselves.

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