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Magnitude 3.6 Earthquake on June 5, 2008 in Southern Illinois near Mount Carmel, Illinois
A minor earthquake occurred at 03:13:14 AM EDT (07:13:14 UTC) on Thursday, June 5, 2008 near Mount Carmel, Illinois. The magnitude 3.6 event occurred 8 km (5 miles) WNW (300 degrees) of Mount Carmel, Illinois. The hypocentral depth of the event is 5 km (3.1 miles).
For more information on this event, see this USGS web site: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2008sxba.php#details This 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 10 Network instruments.
