Minor earthquake: M3.05 quake has struck near Loa in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Loa in Utah. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60274867. Id of event: uu60274867. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -3.02 km (-2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/18 / 2018-03-22 00:27:44 / March 22, 2018 @ 12:27 am. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:27:44 / 5:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -111.6631699° West, 38.411335° North, depth -3.02 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richfield. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop).

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. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.6631699° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.411335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-3.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WNW of Loa, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-22 00:27:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-22 00:38:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.81	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	145	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3597	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	uu60274867	Id of event.
Event Code	60274867	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60274867,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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