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Minor earthquake 3.51 mag, 3 km NW of Loa, Utah


Earthquake location 38.4215012S, -111.668663WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Loa in Utah. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.98 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/04/18 / 2018-04-03 20:26:38 / April 3, 2018 @ 8:26 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.51-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:26:38 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -111.668663° West, latitude 38.4215012° North, depth = 3.98 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60276212. Id of event: uu60276212.

Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richfield (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NW of Loa, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.51 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.668663° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4215012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NW of Loa, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-03 20:26:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-03 20:31:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.86 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 190 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 uu60276212 Id of event.
Event Code 60276212 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60276212, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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