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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Ferron in Utah


Earthquake location 39.0401667S, -110.9418333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ferron in Utah. The temblor was picked up at 22:28:05 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jgyi, uu60316662. Id of event: uu60316662. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 05:28:05 / March 16, 2019 @ 5:28 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.05 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -110.9418333 West, latitude 39.0401667 North, depth = 5.05 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Price (c. 8 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ephraim (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ephraim, Price (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km E of Ferron, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.9418333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0401667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.05 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 05:28:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-18 15:18:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 128 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 uu60316662 Id of event.
Event Code 60316662 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jgyi,uu60316662, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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