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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Enterprise in Utah


Earthquake location 37.4906667S, -113.8468333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Enterprise in Utah on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 09:10:22 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/03/19 / 2019-03-03 16:10:22 / March 3, 2019 @ 4:10 pm. Event id: uu60315042. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00679217, uu60315042, us1000ja5g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.03 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -113.8468333 West, latitude 37.4906667 North, depth = 6.03 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enoch, Mesquite, Cedar City. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SW of Enterprise, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.8468333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4906667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW of Enterprise, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-03 16:10:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-03 16:27:07 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 3.45 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 136 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 ,nn,uu,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02991 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 uu60315042 Id of event.
Event Code 60315042 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00679217,uu60315042,us1000ja5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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