Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Thermopolis in Wyoming

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Thermopolis in Wyoming on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us2000bi6d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bi6d. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/11/17 / 2017-11-03 23:11:11 / November 3, 2017 @ 11:11 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:11:11 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -107.4309 West, latitude 43.526 North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Worland. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km ESE of Thermopolis, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-107.4309° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.526° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km ESE of Thermopolis, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-03 23:11:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-03 23:38:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.33	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	276	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	1.098	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	72	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000bi6d	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bi6d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bi6d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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