Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag has occurred near Bluffdale in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Bluffdale in Utah. Global time and date of event 25/11/16 / 2016-11-25 15:45:38 / November 25, 2016 @ 3:45 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:45:38 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.1 km, -111.9980011° West, 40.453167° North. Unique identifier: uu60171887. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60171887. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Riverdale, Washington Terrace, Hooper (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 6 km SW of Bluffdale, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.9980011° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.453167° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SW of Bluffdale, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-25 15:45:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-25 15:53:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.94	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	automatic	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	171	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.034	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	24	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	uu60171887	Id of event.
Event Code	60171887	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60171887,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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