A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Jeffrey City in Wyoming on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -107.942 West, latitude 42.7598 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 00:47:49 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e1ty. Unique identifier: us1000e1ty. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 07:47:49 / May 10, 2018 @ 7:47 am UTC/GMT.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Riverton (c. 10 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Lander (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lander, Riverton.
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km NNW of Jeffrey City, Wyoming.
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