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Light earthquake, 4.16 mag has occurred near Milford in Utah


Earthquake location 38.504833221435S, -112.89266967773WA light earthquake magnitude 4.16 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Milford in Utah on Thursday. The 4.16-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:45:50 / 6:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu80095901. Id of event: uu80095901. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 18:45:50 / December 5, 2024 @ 6:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.7000000476837 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.7000000476837 km, -112.89266967773° West, 38.504833221435° North.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enoch, Richfield.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 15 km NE of Milford, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.89266967773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.504833221435° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.7000000476837 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km NE of Milford, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-05 18:45:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 18:48:16 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 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 266 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.159999996 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 uu80095901 Id of event.
Event Code 80095901 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu80095901, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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