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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Blanding in Utah


Earthquake location 37.5768318S, -110.4304962WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 km W of Blanding, Utah (52 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -110.4304962 West, latitude 37.5768318 North, depth = -2.97 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/17 / 2017-03-18 01:09:01 / March 18, 2017 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -2.97 km (-2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:09:01 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: uu60189547. Event ids that are associated: uu60189547.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 84 km W of Blanding, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.4304962° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5768318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -2.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km W of Blanding, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-18 01:09:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-18 01:13:44 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 138 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 uu60189547 Id of event.
Event Code 60189547 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60189547, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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