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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Cedar City in Utah

Posted by admin on August 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3688S, -112.8652WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Cedar City in Utah. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.12 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.12 km, -112.8652° West, 37.3688° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:48:54 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 10:48:54 / August 4, 2019 @ 10:48 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us600050ip. Ids that are associated to the event: us600050ip.

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ivins, Santa Clara, Saint George (min 5000 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 38 km SSE of Cedar City, Utah.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.8652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSE of Cedar City, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-04 10:48:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-04 11:33:09 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 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 121 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 ,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 1.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us600050ip Id of event.
Event Code 600050ip An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600050ip, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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