Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Afton in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 27 km WNW of Afton, Wyoming (17 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/15 / 2015-08-29 04:18:11 / August 29, 2015 @ 4:18 am. Unique identifier: mb15492726. Ids that are associated to the event: mb15492726. Exact location of event, longitude -111.2605 West, latitude 42.7853 North, depth = 0 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:18:11 / 10:18 pm (local time epicenter).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WNW of Afton, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.2605° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.7853° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km WNW of Afton, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-29 04:18:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-01 21:29:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	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	140	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1194759	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97.199992224001	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mc	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	mb15492726	Id of event.
Event Code	15492726	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb15492726,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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