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Magnitude 5.2 Pennsylvania
1998 September 25 19:52:52 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

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Regional Location

Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time 1998 09 25 19:52:52 UTC
Location 41.49N 80.38W
Depth 5.0 kilometers
Region Pennsylvania
Reference 25 km (15 miles) SW of Meadville, Pennsylvania
30 km (20 miles) NNE of Sharon, Pennsylvania
120 km (75 miles) NNW of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
325 km (200 miles) WNW of HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania
Location Quality Error estimate not available
Location Quality
Parameters
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Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Remarks Minor damage in the Greenville-Jamestown, Pennsylvania area. Felt throughout northern Ohio and most of Pennsylvania. Felt in northern Indiana, southeastern Michigan, New York as far east as Syracuse and West Virginia. Felt in parts of Illinois and New Jersey. Also felt in much of southern Ontario, Canada.

NB: The region name is an automatically generated name from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme. The boundaries of these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from irregular political boundaries. More->

 


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