Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Etna in Wyoming

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Etna in Wyoming. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:35:08 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/24 / 2024-11-08 22:35:08 / November 8, 2024 @ 10:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.8494 West, latitude 43.0689 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000nqsm. Event ids that are associated: us7000nqsm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jackson (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km ENE of Etna, Wyoming.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.8494° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.0689° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km ENE of Etna, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-08 22:35:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-08 22:43:22	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	129	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us7000nqsm	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nqsm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nqsm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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