A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Panguitch in Utah on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -112.329° West, latitude 37.5161° North, depth = 5.45 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003g6q. Id of event: us20003g6q. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/15 / 2015-09-04 01:20:04 / September 4, 2015 @ 1:20 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.45 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:20:04 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enoch, Cedar City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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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