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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming


Earthquake location 44.3973S, -111.1338WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 12:32:52 / December 15, 2019 @ 12:32 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.91 km (10 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:32:52 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -111.1338° West, latitude 44.3973° North, depth = 15.91 km. Id of earthquake: us60006rs5. Event ids that are associated: uu60353847, us60006rs5.

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Rexburg (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rexburg (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 25 km WSW of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.1338° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WSW 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 2019-12-15 12:32:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-15 13:45:57 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 188 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 0.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us60006rs5 Id of event.
Event Code 60006rs5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60353847,us60006rs5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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