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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Magna in Utah

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Magna in Utah. Exact location of event, depth 7.76 km, -112.0774° West, 40.7719° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.76 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60008ht8. Event ids that are associated: us60008ht8. Global time and date of event 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 14:02:13 / March 18, 2020 @ 2:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:02:13 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santaquin, Salem, Payson (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 NNE of Magna, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0774° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7719° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNE of Magna, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-18 14:02:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-18 14:18:34	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	3.887	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	298	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	0.26	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60008ht8	Id of event.
Event Code	60008ht8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60008ht8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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