Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Beaver in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Beaver in Utah. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60315627. Id of event: uu60315627. Exact location of earthquake, -112.7745° West, 38.0921667° North, depth 6.23 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:35:11 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 15:35:11 / March 7, 2019 @ 3:35 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.23 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). 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).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km SSW of Beaver, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.7745° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0921667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km SSW of Beaver, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-07 15:35:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-07 15:57:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.57	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	138	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1764	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	uu60315627	Id of event.
Event Code	60315627	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60315627,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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