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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming


Earthquake location 44.7938S, -110.4902WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 45 km NE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming (28 miles) on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us70005uqj. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60345572, us70005uqj. Exact location, longitude -110.4902° West, latitude 44.7938° North, depth = 8.29 km. The temblor was reported at 10:08:30 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/19 / 2019-10-16 17:08:30 / October 16, 2019 @ 5:08 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.29 km (5 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 45 km NE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.4902° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7938° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NE 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 2019-10-16 17:08:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-16 18:54:46 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 129 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 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us70005uqj Id of event.
Event Code 70005uqj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60345572,us70005uqj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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