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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Utah


Earthquake location 40.0306S, -111.3139WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Utah kilometers (0 miles) from Utah. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.25 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 21:41:13 / November 16, 2020 @ 9:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -111.3139° West, 40.0306° North, depth 4.25 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cfv8. Unique identifier: us7000cfv8. The temblor was picked up at 21:41:13 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sandy City (c. 87 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from South Jordan (c. 50 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Jordan Heights, Sandy City, South Jordan.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3139° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 21:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 22:06:27 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 148 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 0.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us7000cfv8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cfv8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cfv8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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