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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Monroe in Utah


Earthquake location 38.6551S, -112.1115WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Monroe in Utah on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.12 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 05:01:04 / December 21, 2018 @ 5:01 am. Exact location, longitude -112.1115° West, latitude 38.6551° North, depth = 2.12 km. Id of earthquake: us2000ivti. Event ids that are associated: us2000ivti. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:01:04 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richfield (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NNE of Monroe, Utah. This information 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 -112.1115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6551° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNE of Monroe, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-21 05:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-21 09:37:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.02 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 ,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 1.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us2000ivti Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivti An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivti, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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