Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag strikes near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 12:32:52 / December 15, 2019 @ 12:32 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60353847. Unique identifier: uu60353847. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.46 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:32:52 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 16.46 km, -111.1483307° West, 44.3983345° North.

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Rexburg (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rexburg.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km WSW of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.39 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.1483307° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.3983345° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km WSW 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	2019-12-15 12:32:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-15 12:37:23	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	177	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2094	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	uu60353847	Id of event.
Event Code	60353847	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60353847,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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