Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Dutch John in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Dutch John in Utah on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.463 km (7 miles). Event id: us7000nz3s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nz3s. Exact location of event, longitude -109.5746 West, latitude 40.8423 North, depth = 10.463 km. The temblor was detected at 16:28:05 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/12/24 / 2024-12-15 16:28:05 / December 15, 2024 @ 4:28 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Green River (c. 12 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Vernal (c. 9 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Roosevelt (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Green River, Roosevelt, Vernal (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 18 km WSW of Dutch John, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-109.5746° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.8423° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.463 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km WSW of Dutch John, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-15 16:28:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-15 16:47:17	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	121	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.271	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us7000nz3s	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nz3s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nz3s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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