Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Saint George in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Saint George in Utah. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.58 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: uu60307942. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iwgl, uu60307942. Global time and date of event 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 00:09:17 / December 23, 2018 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 8.58 km, -113.5186667° West, 36.953° North. The temblor was detected at 17:09:17 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mesquite, Hurricane, Ivins (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km S of Saint George, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-113.5186667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.953° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km S of Saint George, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-12-23 00:09:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-23 06:16:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	41	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.68	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	137	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	,us,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	uu60307942	Id of event.
Event Code	60307942	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iwgl,uu60307942,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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