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Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Kayenta in Arizona


Earthquake location 37.0361671S, -109.6240005WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Kayenta in Arizona. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.5 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -109.6240005° West, 37.0361671° North, depth 10.5 km. Id of earthquake: uu60326247. Event ids that are associated: uu60326247. The temblor was picked up at 02:09:12 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/05/19 / 2019-05-30 09:09:12 / May 30, 2019 @ 9:09 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kayenta. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Kayenta (c. 5 200 pop).

Every 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 three 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.

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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: 65 km ENE of Kayenta, Arizona.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.6240005° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0361671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ENE of Kayenta, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-30 09:09:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-30 09:13:31 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 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 140 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 333 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 uu60326247 Id of event.
Event Code 60326247 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60326247, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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