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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Gillette in Wyoming

Posted by admin on September 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.461S, -105.251WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Gillette in Wyoming on Monday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:50:40 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/15 / 2015-08-24 12:50:40 / August 24, 2015 @ 12:50 pm. Exact location, longitude -105.251° West, latitude 44.461° North, depth = 18.65 km. Event id: us100034g0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034g0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.65 km (12 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gillette (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Gillette (c. 29 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km NE of Gillette, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.251° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km NE of Gillette, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-24 12:50:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 08:47:00 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,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 0.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us100034g0 Id of event.
Event Code 100034g0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034g0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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