Minor earthquake: M3.67 quake has struck near Magna in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.67 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Magna in Utah. Event id: uu60020244. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60020244. Exact location of event, depth 11.46 km, -112.0956667° West, 40.7493333° North. The 3.67-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:23:19 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 13:23:19 / March 18, 2020 @ 1:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.46 km (7 miles).

The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brigham City, Payson, Mapleton (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km N of Magna, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.67 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0956667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7493333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km N 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 13:23:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-18 14:42:47	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	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	207	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09853	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	uu60020244	Id of event.
Event Code	60020244	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60020244,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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