Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Wright in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Wright in Wyoming. Exact location of event, longitude -105.0778 West, latitude 43.7795 North, depth = 14.93 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/18 / 2018-09-14 20:01:23 / September 14, 2018 @ 8:01 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.93 km (9 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:01:23 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hi8r. Id of event: us2000hi8r.

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Gillette (c. 29 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gillette (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km E of Wright, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-105.0778° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.7795° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km E of Wright, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-14 20:01:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-08 17:22:53	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	129	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	0.826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us2000hi8r	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hi8r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hi8r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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