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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Hoback in Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.2595S, -110.8994WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hoback in Wyoming. Exact location of event, depth 7.034 km, -110.8994° West, 43.2595° North. The temblor was detected at 10:05:49 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhj5. Unique identifier: us6000nhj5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 10:05:49 / August 2, 2024 @ 10:05 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.034 km (4 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jackson (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 9 km WSW of Hoback, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.8994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.034 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km WSW of Hoback, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-02 10:05:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-02 10:21:41 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000nhj5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nhj5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nhj5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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