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Minor earthquake, 3.93 mag strikes near Panguitch in Utah


Earthquake location 37.8093333S, -112.4325WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Panguitch in Utah on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 10.67 km, -112.4325° West, 37.8093333° North. Event id: uu60116197. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60116197, us10002nek. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.67 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 16:00:04 / July 4, 2015 @ 4:00 pm. The 3.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:00:04 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cedar City, Enoch. Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km S of Panguitch, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8093333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S of Panguitch, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-04 16:00:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-04 16:17:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.14 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 238 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uu,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uu60116197 Id of event.
Event Code 60116197 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60116197,us10002nek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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