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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Hildale in Utah


Earthquake location 37.1875S, -112.8929977WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hildale in Utah on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 20:59:21 / 8:59 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005b3z, uu60338487. Unique identifier: uu60338487. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.98 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/09/19 / 2019-09-02 03:59:21 / September 2, 2019 @ 3:59 am. Exact location of event, longitude -112.8929977 West, latitude 37.1875 North, depth = 15.98 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ivins, Santa Clara, Enoch (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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 ten 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 23 km NNE of Hildale, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.8929977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1875° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNE of Hildale, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-02 03:59:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-02 04:23:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.98 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 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 uu60338487 Id of event.
Event Code 60338487 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005b3z,uu60338487, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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