Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 km NNE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming (9 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us70004r1l. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60332197, us70004r1l. Exact location of event, longitude -110.7572 West, latitude 44.5768 North, depth = 7.94 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.94 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 23/07/19 / 2019-07-23 06:40:29 / July 23, 2019 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:40:29 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km NNE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.7572° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.5768° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NNE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-23 06:40:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-30 05:45:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	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	130	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.078	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us70004r1l	Id of event.
Event Code	70004r1l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60332197,us70004r1l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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