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Minor earthquake, 3.66 mag has occurred near Parowan in Utah


Earthquake location 38.0536652S, -112.8116684WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Parowan in Utah. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 08:15:17 / October 30, 2018 @ 8:15 am. Exact location of event, longitude -112.8116684 West, latitude 38.0536652 North, depth = 10.06 km. The 3.66-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:15:17 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uu60303007. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60303007, us1000hiy6. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.06 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cedar City, Enoch (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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: 23 km N of Parowan, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.66 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.8116684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0536652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km N of Parowan, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-30 08:15:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-30 08:28:21 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 3.63 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 206 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 uu60303007 Id of event.
Event Code 60303007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60303007,us1000hiy6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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