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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Panguitch in Utah


Earthquake location 37.881S, -112.4871667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Panguitch in Utah. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.47 km (2 miles). The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:09:35 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60019039. Id of event: uu60019039. Exact location, longitude -112.4871667° West, latitude 37.881° North, depth = 3.47 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/09/19 / 2019-09-12 03:09:35 / September 12, 2019 @ 3:09 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cedar City, Enoch. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km NW of Panguitch, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4871667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW of Panguitch, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-12 03:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-12 14:04:35 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 128 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 uu60019039 Id of event.
Event Code 60019039 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60019039, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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