Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Washington in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Washington in Utah. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.359999656677 km (7 miles). The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:33:45 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 04:33:45 / July 24, 2024 @ 4:33 am. Exact location, longitude -113.48366546631° West, latitude 37.048332214355° North, depth = 11.359999656677 km. Unique identifier: uu80076336. Ids that are associated to the event: uu80076336.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mesquite, Hurricane, Ivins (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SSE of Washington, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-113.48366546631° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.048332214355° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.359999656677 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE of Washington, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-24 04:33:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-24 04:43:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	automatic	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	128	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1958	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.140000001 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	uu80076336	Id of event.
Event Code	80076336	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80076336,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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