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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Grand Canyon Village in Arizona

Posted by admin on March 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3867S, -112.2434WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 km NNW of Grand Canyon Village, Arizona (24 miles). Unique identifier: us20008tk8. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008tk8. The temblor was reported at 10:20:52 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18 km, -112.2434° West, 36.3867° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/03/17 / 2017-03-21 17:20:52 / March 21, 2017 @ 5:20 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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 NNW of Grand Canyon Village, Arizona.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.2434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3867° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW of Grand Canyon Village, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-21 17:20:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-21 18:25:32 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 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 129 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 0.056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us20008tk8 Id of event.
Event Code 20008tk8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008tk8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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