A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Duchesne in Utah. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:24:52 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -110.6421° West, latitude 40.4789° North, depth = 3.74 km. Unique identifier: us20005xu2. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005xu2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 15:24:52 / May 25, 2016 @ 3:24 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.74 km (2 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Park City, Heber, Roosevelt (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Heber (c. 9 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Park City (c. 7 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Roosevelt (c. 6 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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