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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Garland in Utah


Earthquake location 41.9061667S, -112.4195WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Garland in Utah on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -112.4195° West, 41.9061667° North, depth 6.37 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.37 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:35:53 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60382727. Id of event: uu60382727. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 16:35:53 / April 29, 2020 @ 4:35 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was North Ogden, Farr West, Pleasant View (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Brigham City (c. 17 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from North Ogden (c. 17 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km NW of Garland, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4195° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9061667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NW of Garland, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-29 16:35:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-29 17:04:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 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 127 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 uu60382727 Id of event.
Event Code 60382727 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60382727, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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