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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Thermopolis in Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.526S, -107.4309WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Thermopolis in Wyoming on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us2000bi6d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bi6d. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/11/17 / 2017-11-03 23:11:11 / November 3, 2017 @ 11:11 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:11:11 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -107.4309 West, latitude 43.526 North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Worland. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km ESE of Thermopolis, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.4309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km ESE of Thermopolis, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-03 23:11:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-03 23:38:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.33 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 276 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 ,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 1.098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000bi6d Id of event.
Event Code 2000bi6d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bi6d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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