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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Cody in Wyoming


Earthquake location 44.5541S, -109.3274WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Cody in Wyoming on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 6.8 km, -109.3274° West, 44.5541° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:20:45 / 1:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 19:20:45 / July 22, 2016 @ 7:20 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.8 km (4 miles). Event id: us20006gv9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gv9.

The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Cody (c. 9 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Powell (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Powell, Cody (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km W of Cody, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.3274° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.5541° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km W of Cody, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-22 19:20:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-23 15:51:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20006gv9 Id of event.
Event Code 20006gv9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gv9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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