Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag was detected near Blanding in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Blanding in Utah. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/17 / 2017-04-22 04:01:41 / April 22, 2017 @ 4:01 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:01:41 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -109.5613327° West, latitude 37.2495003° North, depth = -2.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60194762. Unique identifier: uu60194762. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -2.8 km (-2 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Cortez (c. 8 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kayenta (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cortez, Kayenta (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km S of Blanding, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-109.5613327° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2495003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-2.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km S of Blanding, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-22 04:01:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-22 04:14:11	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	5.2	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	226	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8491	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	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	uu60194762	Id of event.
Event Code	60194762	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60194762,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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