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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Nephi in Utah


Earthquake location 39.6846667S, -111.9651667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nephi in Utah on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 2.32 km, -111.9651667° West, 39.6846667° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.32 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:43:23 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: uu60122802. Unique identifier: uu60122802. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/15 / 2015-09-10 20:43:23 / September 10, 2015 @ 8:43 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lindon, Saratoga Springs, Orem. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Spanish Fork (c. 34 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Springville (c. 29 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Eagle Mountain (c. 21 400 pop).

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 occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km WSW of Nephi, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.9651667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6846667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WSW of Nephi, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-10 20:43:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 21:25:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 127 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 uu60122802 Id of event.
Event Code 60122802 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60122802, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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