Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag was detected near Garland in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Garland in Utah on Tuesday. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:29:59 / 9:29 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: uu60173372. Event ids that are associated: uu60173372. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.56 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -112.3445° West, latitude 41.9303333° North, depth = 5.56 km. Global time and date of event 07/12/16 / 2016-12-07 04:29:59 / December 7, 2016 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 47 km (30 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Brigham City (c. 17 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from North Ogden (c. 17 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Harrisville, North Ogden, Farr West (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km NW of Garland, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.3445° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9303333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km NW of Garland, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-07 04:29:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-07 21:30:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.47	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	138	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01483	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	uu60173372	Id of event.
Event Code	60173372	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60173372,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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