A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from West Valley City in Utah. Unique identifier: uu60365147. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60365147. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.86 km (-1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 21:10:54 / March 18, 2020 @ 9:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:10:54 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -112.0421677° West, 40.7270012° North, depth -0.86 km.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Springville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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