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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Ferron in Utah


Earthquake location 39.0716S, -110.9609WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ferron in Utah. Exact location of event, depth 5.9 km, -110.9609° West, 39.0716° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 05:28:04 / March 16, 2019 @ 5:28 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jgyi. Id of event: us1000jgyi. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.9 km (4 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:28:04 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ephraim, Price (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Price (c. 8 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ephraim (c. 6 100 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 15 km E of Ferron, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.9609° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0716° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km E of Ferron, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-16 05:28:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-16 07:06:18 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 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 138 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 0.225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us1000jgyi Id of event.
Event Code 1000jgyi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jgyi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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