Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Panguitch in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Panguitch in Utah. Global time and date of event 04/09/15 / 2015-09-04 01:20:04 / September 4, 2015 @ 1:20 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:20:04 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.43 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.3116667 West, latitude 37.537 North, depth = 7.43 km. Id of earthquake: uu60122057. Event ids that are associated: us20003g6q, uu60122057.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enoch, Cedar City (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 35 km SSE of Panguitch, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.3116667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.537° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km SSE 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	2015-09-04 01:20:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-04 14:36:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	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	121	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	,us,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.093	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	uu60122057	Id of event.
Event Code	60122057	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003g6q,uu60122057,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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