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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming


Earthquake location 44.2420006S, -110.7720032WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 24 km S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming (15 miles). The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:57:20 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.01 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/17 / 2017-01-07 09:57:20 / January 7, 2017 @ 9:57 am. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60181152. Unique identifier: uu60181152. Exact location of event, depth 5.01 km, -110.7720032° West, 44.2420006° North.

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 has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.7720032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2420006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km S of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-07 09:57:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-07 10:00:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 126 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1768 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 uu60181152 Id of event.
Event Code 60181152 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60181152, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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