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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Meadow Lark Lake in Wyoming


Earthquake location 44.0186S, -107.1003WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Meadow Lark Lake in Wyoming. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 16:07:14 / August 23, 2020 @ 4:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bjfg. Unique identifier: us6000bjfg. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -107.1003 West, latitude 44.0186 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:07:14 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Worland (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km SE of Meadow Lark Lake, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.1003° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.0186° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SE of Meadow Lark Lake, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-23 16:07:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-23 16:22:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000bjfg Id of event.
Event Code 6000bjfg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bjfg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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