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Light earthquake: M4.01 quake has struck near Magna in Utah

Posted by admin on March 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.7475S, -112.0801667WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.01 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Magna in Utah on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.94 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60020264. Id of event: uu60020264. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 13:10:16 / March 18, 2020 @ 1:10 pm. Exact location, longitude -112.0801667° West, latitude 40.7475° North, depth = 6.94 km. The temblor was reported at 06:10:16 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santaquin, Brigham City, Salem (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 9 km (6 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), 27 km (17 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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 NNE of Magna, Utah.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0801667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNE 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 13:10:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-19 14:30:57 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 247 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uu60020264 Id of event.
Event Code 60020264 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60020264, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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