Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Alpine Northeast in Wyoming

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Alpine Northeast in Wyoming. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 08:21:19 / August 9, 2024 @ 8:21 am. Exact location of earthquake, -110.9118° West, 43.2455° North, depth 6.924 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.924 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000nj1k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nj1k. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:21:19 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jackson. Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.9118° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.2455° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.924 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NE of Alpine Northeast, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-09 08:21:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-09 08:55:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.243	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us6000nj1k	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nj1k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nj1k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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