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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Panguitch in Utah


Earthquake location 37.9042S, -112.5146WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Panguitch in Utah on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/04/16 / 2016-04-26 14:52:44 / April 26, 2016 @ 2:52 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us10005bmd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005bmd. Exact location, longitude -112.5146° West, latitude 37.9042° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 08:52:44 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cedar City, Enoch. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NW of Panguitch, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5146° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9042° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW of Panguitch, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-26 14:52:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-26 15:21:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us10005bmd Id of event.
Event Code 10005bmd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bmd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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