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2.3 Magnitude Earthquake on July 15, 2006
A micro earthquake occurred July 15, 2006 at about 3:05 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time near Greenville, Kentucky. The magnitude 2.3 earthquake occurred 14.6 kilometers (9.1 miles) underground.
For more information on this event, see this USGS site: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nmhwb0715a.php#details
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 Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky.The graphic below is the actual record of the earthquake made by 8 Network instruments.
