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Light earthquake, 4.37 mag strikes near Thatcher in Utah


Earthquake location 41.579S, -112.41833333333WA light earthquake magnitude 4.37 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Thatcher in Utah. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: uu80068651, us6000mwl5. Unique identifier: uu80068651. The temblor was detected at 23:30:14 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.97 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -112.41833333333° West, 41.579° North, depth 6.97 km. Global time and date of event 05/05/24 / 2024-05-05 23:30:14 / May 5, 2024 @ 11:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was North Salt Lake, Woods Cross, Bountiful. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Ogden (c. 82 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Layton (c. 67 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bountiful (c. 42 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Roy (c. 36 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Clearfield (c. 30 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.41833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SW of Thatcher, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-05 23:30:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-14 21:58:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 529 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.62 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 490 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 uu80068651 Id of event.
Event Code 80068651 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu80068651,us6000mwl5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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