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Magnitude 3.4 earthquake near Dyersburg, Tennessee on November 6, 2009
A minor earthquake occurred at 12:12:39 AM (EST) on Friday, November 6, 2009 near Dyersburg, Tennessee. The magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred 9.7 kilometers (6.0 miles) underground.
For more information on this event, see this USGS website: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/nm1010.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 Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky.
The graphic below is the actual record of the earthquake made by 8 Network instruments.
For more information on earthquakes in this region, go to this KGS site: https://www.uky.edu/KGS/geologichazards/