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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Green River in Wyoming


Earthquake location 41.748S, -109.8246667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Green River in Wyoming. Unique identifier: uu60154687. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60154687. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 23:38:27 / July 1, 2016 @ 11:38 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -109.8246667 West, latitude 41.748 North, depth = 3.17 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:38:27 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.17 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rock Springs, Green River (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Rock Springs (c. 23 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Green River (c. 12 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 38 km NW of Green River, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.8246667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NW of Green River, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-01 23:38:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-05 21:07:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 178 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 uu60154687 Id of event.
Event Code 60154687 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60154687, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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