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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Laramie in Wyoming


Earthquake location 41.4053S, -105.4984WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Laramie in Wyoming on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:24:32 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/19 / 2019-11-23 12:24:32 / November 23, 2019 @ 12:24 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006ce5. Unique identifier: us70006ce5. Exact location of event, longitude -105.4984 West, latitude 41.4053 North, depth = 5 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Cheyenne (c. 59 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Laramie (c. 30 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ranchettes (c. 5 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cheyenne, Ranchettes, Laramie.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 12 km NE of Laramie, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.4984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4053° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE of Laramie, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-23 12:24:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-20 09:32:20 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 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 0.838 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us70006ce5 Id of event.
Event Code 70006ce5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006ce5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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