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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag was detected near West Valley City in Utah

Posted by admin on March 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.7536659S, -112.0390015WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from West Valley City in Utah on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60363667. Unique identifier: uu60363667. The temblor was reported at 06:31:18 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 13:31:18 / March 18, 2020 @ 1:31 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.88 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 8.88 km, -112.0390015° West, 40.7536659° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 12 km (8 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), 25 km (15 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Springville (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NNW of West Valley City, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0390015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7536659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of West Valley City, 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 13:31:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-18 13:33:59 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 167 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 uu60363667 Id of event.
Event Code 60363667 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60363667, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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