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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Manti in Utah


Earthquake location 39.2185S, -111.4533WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Manti in Utah. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.73 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -111.4533° West, latitude 39.2185° North, depth = 3.73 km. Global time and date of event 13/10/19 / 2019-10-13 17:36:37 / October 13, 2019 @ 5:36 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:36:37 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005twn. Unique identifier: us70005twn.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richfield, Price, Nephi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Price (c. 8 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Ephraim (c. 6 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nephi (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km ESE of Manti, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4533° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Manti, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-13 17:36:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-13 19:12:12 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 121 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 0.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us70005twn Id of event.
Event Code 70005twn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005twn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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