A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Thermopolis in Wyoming. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -108.7881 West, latitude 43.6625 North, depth = 12.77 km. Global time and date of event 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 05:06:20 / January 6, 2017 @ 5:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:06:20 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80195929, us10007rnk. Unique identifier: us10007rnk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.77 km (8 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Riverton, Worland (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Riverton (c. 10 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km W of Thermopolis, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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