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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Enoch in Utah


Earthquake location 37.7975S, -113.1295WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Enoch in Utah on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jmct, uu60314202. Unique identifier: uu60314202. The temblor was reported at 01:31:49 / 1:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -113.1295° West, 37.7975° North, depth 10.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.89 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 08:31:49 / February 24, 2019 @ 8:31 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hurricane, Cedar City, Enoch (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 9 km W of Enoch, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.1295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7975° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of Enoch, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-24 08:31:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-25 17:30:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 25 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 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 134 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2464 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 uu60314202 Id of event.
Event Code 60314202 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jmct,uu60314202, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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