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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag has occurred near Summit Park in Utah


Earthquake location 40.6995S, -111.6105WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Summit Park in Utah. Exact location of earthquake, -111.6105° West, 40.6995° North, depth 9.01 km. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60247422. Unique identifier: uu60247422. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/17 / 2017-09-18 17:21:18 / September 18, 2017 @ 5:21 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.01 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:21:18 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santaquin, Plain City, Pleasant View (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 5 km S of Summit Park, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.6105° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S of Summit Park, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-18 17:21:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-18 17:39:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 89 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.2 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 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 193 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 uu60247422 Id of event.
Event Code 60247422 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60247422, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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