Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag strikes near Wright in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Wright in Wyoming on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 21:39:18 / January 21, 2017 @ 9:39 pm. The temblor was picked up at 14:39:18 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: mb80197439. Event ids that are associated: mb80197439. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.5 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -105.1486667 West, latitude 43.6051667 North, depth = 3.5 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gillette (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Gillette (c. 29 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-105.1486667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.6051667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km ESE of Wright, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-21 21:39:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-23 15:10:32	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	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	181	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.956	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	quarry blast	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	mb80197439	Id of event.
Event Code	80197439	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80197439,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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