Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Saint George in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Saint George in Utah. Exact location of event, depth 11.33 km, -113.4915009° West, 36.8725014° North. Unique identifier: uu60136657. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60136657. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.33 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:10:38 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/01/16 / 2016-01-22 00:10:38 / January 22, 2016 @ 12:10 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mesquite, Hurricane, Ivins. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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: 26 km SSE of Saint George, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.11 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-113.4915009° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8725014° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SSE of Saint George, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-22 00:10:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-22 00:14:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	automatic	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	149	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	uu60136657	Id of event.
Event Code	60136657	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60136657,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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