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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Enterprise in Utah


Earthquake location 37.8918333S, -113.6683333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Enterprise in Utah on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.04 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: uu60310267. Event ids that are associated: uu60310267. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 08:58:34 / January 23, 2019 @ 8:58 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -113.6683333 West, latitude 37.8918333 North, depth = 0.04 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:58:34 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cedar City, Enoch (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km N of Enterprise, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.6683333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8918333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km N of Enterprise, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-23 08:58:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 15:32:02 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 127 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2082 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 uu60310267 Id of event.
Event Code 60310267 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60310267, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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