A 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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