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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming


Earthquake location 44.1205S, -110.3997WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60335597, us600055kt. Unique identifier: us600055kt. Exact location of event, longitude -110.3997 West, latitude 44.1205 North, depth = 5.27 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.27 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:46:39 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 19:46:39 / August 15, 2019 @ 7:46 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jackson (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km SE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.3997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.1205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-15 19:46:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-15 19:59:20 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 168 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 ,uu,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 0.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us600055kt Id of event.
Event Code 600055kt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60335597,us600055kt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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