Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Magna in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Magna in Utah on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 13:18:28 / March 18, 2020 @ 1:18 pm. The temblor was picked up at 06:18:28 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.68 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -112.0501633° West, latitude 40.7588348° North, depth = 6.68 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60363632. Id of event: uu60363632.

Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brigham City, Mapleton, Spanish Fork (min 5000 pop).

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 occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NE of Magna, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0501633° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7588348° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km 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 13:18:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-18 13:25:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	464	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.7	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	444	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1299	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	uu60363632	Id of event.
Event Code	60363632	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60363632,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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