A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming. The temblor was detected at 03:41:08 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: uu60154532. Event ids that are associated: uu60154532. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/16 / 2016-06-30 09:41:08 / June 30, 2016 @ 9:41 am. Exact location, longitude -110.8195038° West, latitude 44.1273346° North, depth = 2.1 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.1 km (1 miles).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jackson (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 37 km S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming.
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