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Minor earthquake: M3.49 quake has struck near Beaver in Utah


Earthquake location 38.4298325S, -112.4796677WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Beaver in Utah. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -3.41 km (-2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 15:38:51 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uu60264557. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60264557. Exact location of event, depth -3.41 km, -112.4796677° West, 38.4298325° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/18 / 2018-01-08 22:38:51 / January 8, 2018 @ 10:38 pm.

Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Richfield.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 22 km NE of Beaver, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4796677° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4298325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NE of Beaver, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-08 22:38:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-08 22:46:38 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 5.17 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 187 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1812 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 uu60264557 Id of event.
Event Code 60264557 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60264557, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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