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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Thermopolis in Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.4298333S, -108.2811667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Thermopolis in Wyoming. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:51:18 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 03:51:18 / September 3, 2015 @ 3:51 am. Exact location of event, depth -3.1 km, -108.2811667° West, 43.4298333° North. Unique identifier: mb80096339. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80096339. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -3.1 km (-2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lander, Worland, Riverton (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Riverton (c. 10 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lander (c. 7 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 24 km SSW of Thermopolis, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.2811667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.4298333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSW of Thermopolis, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-03 03:51:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-03 14:06:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 125 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 mb80096339 Id of event.
Event Code 80096339 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80096339, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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