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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 20 km SSW of Hoback, Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.1134S, -110.893WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hoback in Wyoming on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80260474, us1000apt4. Id of event: us1000apt4. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.893 West, latitude 43.1134 North, depth = 4.31 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 20:14:58 / October 10, 2017 @ 8:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 13:14:58 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.31 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jackson.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km SSW of Hoback, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.893° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.1134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of Hoback, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-10 20:14:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-10 21:55:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 130 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 ,mb,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 0.25 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000apt4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000apt4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80260474,us1000apt4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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