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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Thermopolis in Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.5212S, -107.457WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Thermopolis in Wyoming on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -107.457 West, latitude 43.5212 North, depth = 15.32 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:24:07 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80267569, us1000az7z. Id of event: us1000az7z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.32 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 18:24:07 / October 31, 2017 @ 6:24 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Worland. Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Worland (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 62 km ESE of Thermopolis, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.5212° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2017-10-31 18:24:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 15:44:50 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 158 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 1.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us1000az7z Id of event.
Event Code 1000az7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80267569,us1000az7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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