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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Mapleton in Utah

Posted by admin on November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.9721667S, -111.3188333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Mapleton in Utah. The temblor was reported at 21:41:21 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -111.3188333° West, latitude 39.9721667° North, depth = 19.8 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 21:41:21 / November 16, 2020 @ 9:41 pm. Unique identifier: uu60024109. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cfv8, uu60024109. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.8 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Lehi (c. 47 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Draper (c. 42 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Spanish Fork (c. 34 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Draper, Park City, Ephraim (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SE of Mapleton, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3188333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9721667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SE of Mapleton, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-16 21:41:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 22:34:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 ,us,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 uu60024109 Id of event.
Event Code 60024109 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cfv8,uu60024109, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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