Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Magna in Utah

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Magna in Utah. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.19 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: uu60364832. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60364832. The temblor was detected at 12:12:23 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.0671692 West, latitude 40.7446671 North, depth = 10.19 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 19:12:23 / March 18, 2020 @ 7:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santaquin, Brigham City, Salem. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sandy City (c. 87 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0671692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7446671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NE 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 19:12:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-18 19:21:38	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	5.67	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	326	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	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	uu60364832	Id of event.
Event Code	60364832	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60364832,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-112.0671692° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

40.7446671° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10.19 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

4km NE 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 19:12:23

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-03-18 19:21:38

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

5.67

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.38 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

uu60364832

Id of event.

Event Code

60364832

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,uu60364832,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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