Rare earthquake 3.0 magnitude north of Baton Rouge Sunday night

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Earthquake north of BR Sunday night

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Louisiana experienced a rare event on Sunday evening -- a small earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The 3.0 temblor occurred at 11:38 p.m. Sunday evening about 35 miles north of Baton Rouge east of Clinton near the Amite River, south of La. 10.

Maj. Bob King of the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office said they did not receive any reports from the public regarding the earthquake.

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Re: Rare earthquake 3.0 magnitude north of Baton Rouge Sunday night

Magnitude 3.0 LOUISIANA
Monday, August 02, 2010 at 04:34:29 UTC

<!-- zlai --><TABLE style="MARGIN: 0px 0.5em 0.5em" id=parameters class=tabular summary="Earthquake Details"><TBODY><TR><TH>Magnitude </TH><TD>3.0 </TD></TR><TR><TH>Date-Time </TH><TD>Monday, August 02, 2010 at 04:34:29 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 11:34:29 PM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Location </TH><TD>30.81N 90.85W </TD></TR><TR><TH>Depth </TH><TD>0.4 kilometers </TD></TR><TR><TH>Region </TH><TD>LOUISIANA </TD></TR><TR><TH>Distances </TH><TD>50 km (30 miles) NE of BATON ROUGE, Louisiana
50 km (30 miles) NW of Hammond, Louisiana
60 km (40 miles) SW of McComb, Mississippi
120 km (75 miles) NW of New Orleans, Louisiana

</TD></TR><TR><TH>Location Uncertainty </TH><TD>Error estimate not available, held by USGS NEIC to another agency's solution </TD></TR><TR><TH>Parameters </TH><TD>not available </TD></TR><TR><TH>Source </TH><TD>Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, Tennessee, USA </TD></TR><TR><TH>Event ID </TH><TD>us2010zlai </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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USGS Topographic Map, Resolution: 16.0 meters/pixel
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USGS Aerial Photo, Resolution: 16.0 meters/pixel

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/last_event/states/states_louisiana.php

 

[Emily]

Re: Rare earthquake 3.0 magnitude north of Baton Rouge Sunday night

This might not be related since the earthquake epicenter was 30 miles away, but there is a fault that runs through Baton Rouge.

http://www.coastalenv.com/EffectofEarthquakeFaultMovementsandSubsidence.pdf
Effects of Earthquakes, Fault
Movements, and Subsidence on the
South Louisiana Landscape
By
Sherwood M. Gagliano, Ph.D.
Reprinted from
The Louisiana Civil Engineer
Journal of the Louisiana Section
of The American Society of
Civil Engineers
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
February 2005
Volume 13, Number 2
pp. 5-