Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Thermopolis in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Thermopolis in Wyoming. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.08 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:08:24 / 5:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80268399. Unique identifier: mb80268399. Exact location, longitude -107.4048333° West, latitude 43.5585° North, depth = 3.08 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/17 / 2017-11-05 12:08:24 / November 5, 2017 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Worland.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km E of Thermopolis, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-107.4048333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.5585° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65km E 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	2017-11-05 12:08:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-06 22:07:59	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	128	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.763	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	mb80268399	Id of event.
Event Code	80268399	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80268399,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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