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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Manti in Utah


Earthquake location 39.2333336S, -111.4606705WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Manti in Utah. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 12:49:22 / December 20, 2018 @ 12:49 pm. Exact location, longitude -111.4606705° West, latitude 39.2333336° North, depth = -3.32 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:22 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -3.32 km (-2 miles). Unique identifier: uu60307652. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60307652.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Price (c. 8 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ephraim (c. 6 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Nephi (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richfield, Price, Nephi. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km ESE of Manti, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4606705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2333336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ESE of Manti, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 12:49:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 13:03:43 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 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.58 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 148 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 uu60307652 Id of event.
Event Code 60307652 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60307652, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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