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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Wasatch Front Urban Corridor, Utah


Earthquake location 40.4696655S, -111.9489975WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Wasatch Front Urban Corridor, Utah kilometers (0 miles) from Wasatch Front Urban Corridor, Utah. The temblor was reported at 09:31:10 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uu60314012. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60314012. Exact location of earthquake, -111.9489975° West, 40.4696655° North, depth 9.02 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.02 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 09:31:10 / February 23, 2019 @ 9:31 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Ogden, Riverdale, Hooper (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter 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). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Wasatch Front Urban Corridor, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.9489975° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4696655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Wasatch Front Urban Corridor, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-23 09:31:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-23 09:34:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 147 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 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 uu60314012 Id of event.
Event Code 60314012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60314012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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