Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 17 km S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming (11 miles) on Saturday. Event id: uu60246847. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60246847. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 05:38:44 / September 17, 2017 @ 5:38 am. The temblor was reported at 22:38:44 / 10:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.8528366 West, latitude 44.2999992 North, depth = 2 km.

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

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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. 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: 17 km S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.8528366° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.2999992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-17 05:38:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-17 05:46:53	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	2.7	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	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	127	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2201	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	uu60246847	Id of event.
Event Code	60246847	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60246847,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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