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Minor earthquake, 3.37 mag has occurred near Thatcher in Utah


Earthquake location 41.594833333333S, -112.40766666667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Thatcher in Utah. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/24 / 2024-05-05 23:31:47 / May 5, 2024 @ 11:31 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.21 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:31:47 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -112.40766666667 West, latitude 41.594833333333 North, depth = 2.21 km. Event id: uu80001258. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu80001258.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Ogden (c. 82 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Layton (c. 67 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Roy (c. 36 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Clearfield (c. 30 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farmington, Kaysville, Preston (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SW of Thatcher, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.40766666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.594833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 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 23:31:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 17:45:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.148 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 176 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uu80001258 Id of event.
Event Code 80001258 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu80001258, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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