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3.0 Magnitude Earthquake on March 1, 2006
A minor earthquake occurred January 2, 2006 at approximately 11:42 a.m. Central Standard Time near Buncombe , IL . Registering 3.0 on the Richter scale, the quake occurred 6.2 kilometers (3.9 miles) underground.
For more information on this event, see this USGS site: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nmhwb0301a.php
The earthquake was recorded on instruments in the Kentucky Seismic and Strong Motion Network, operated jointly by the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Kentucky .
The graphic below is the actual record of the earthquake made by 11 Network instruments
For more information on earthquakes in this region, go to this KGS site: https://www.uky.edu/KGS/geologichazards/