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Minor earthquake, 3.79 mag was detected near Bluffdale in Utah

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.79 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Bluffdale in Utah. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/02/19 / 2019-02-15 12:09:51 / February 15, 2019 @ 12:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -111.9424973° West, latitude 40.4698334° North, depth = 4.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.31 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:09:51 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uu60312667. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60312667, us2000jief.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nephi, Ogden, West Haven.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km S of Bluffdale, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.79 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.9424973° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4698334° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km S of Bluffdale, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-15 12:09:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-15 12:17:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	70	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.01	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	automatic	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	248	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01718	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	uu60312667	Id of event.
Event Code	60312667	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60312667,us2000jief,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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