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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag strikes near Tooele in Utah


Earthquake location 40.559166S, -112.1679993WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Tooele in Utah. Exact location of event, longitude -112.1679993 West, latitude 40.559166 North, depth = -3.06 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -3.06 km (-2 miles). The 3.27-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:09:35 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60319982. Id of event: uu60319982. Global time and date of event 08/04/19 / 2019-04-08 20:09:35 / April 8, 2019 @ 8:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Harrisville, Ogden, Santaquin. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 11 km ENE of Tooele, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.1679993° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.559166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ENE of Tooele, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-08 20:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-08 20:15:28 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 4.07 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 165 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07816 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 uu60319982 Id of event.
Event Code 60319982 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60319982, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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