Minor earthquake, 3.93 mag strikes near Thatcher in Utah

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Thatcher in Utah on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/24 / 2024-05-04 08:36:47 / May 4, 2024 @ 8:36 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.24 km (4 miles). The 3.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:36:47 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -112.41866666667° West, latitude 41.576833333333° North, depth = 6.24 km. 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: uu80068266, us6000mwae. Unique identifier: uu80068266.

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), 57 km (35 miles) from Roy (c. 36 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Clearfield (c. 30 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kaysville (c. 27 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Bountiful, Centerville, Farmington (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 four, 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 occurred nearby.

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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. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.41866666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.576833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.24 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	2024-05-04 08:36:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-16 07:53:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	122	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.401	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	286	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1295	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	uu80068266	Id of event.
Event Code	80068266	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80068266,us6000mwae,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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