Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near Mona in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mona in Utah. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.0646667 West, latitude 39.8785 North, depth = 7.42 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.42 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:04:13 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/10/18 / 2018-10-16 18:04:13 / October 16, 2018 @ 6:04 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60301017. Unique identifier: uu60301017.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was White City, South Jordan, South Jordan Heights. Epicenter of the event was 52 km (33 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from South Jordan (c. 50 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Lehi (c. 47 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Draper (c. 42 300 pop).

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

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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: 19 km WNW of Mona, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0646667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.8785° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km WNW of Mona, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-16 18:04:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-16 18:27:08	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	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.19	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	131	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07665	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	uu60301017	Id of event.
Event Code	60301017	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60301017,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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