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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Dubois in Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.5729S, -109.8214WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Dubois in Wyoming on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.69 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 02:54:01 / November 23, 2015 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -109.8214° West, 43.5729° North, depth 1.69 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100040fk. Unique identifier: us100040fk. The temblor was picked up at 19:54:01 / 7:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop). 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 Jackson.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km WNW of Dubois, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.8214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.5729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Dubois, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-23 02:54:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-23 04:30:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 143 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 0.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us100040fk Id of event.
Event Code 100040fk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040fk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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