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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 23 km SW of Afton, Wyoming

Posted by admin on September 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.5794S, -111.1463WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Afton in Wyoming. Unique identifier: us2000hgat. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hgat. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 09:22:30 / September 18, 2018 @ 9:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:22:30 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.1463 West, latitude 42.5794 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 23 km SW of Afton, Wyoming.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.1463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5794° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SW of Afton, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-18 09:22:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 13:30:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 168 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 0.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us2000hgat Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgat An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgat, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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