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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Lyman in Wyoming


Earthquake location 41.501667S, -110.1419983WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Lyman in Wyoming. The temblor was picked up at 15:34:08 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60355392. Id of event: uu60355392. Global time and date of event 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 22:34:08 / December 23, 2019 @ 10:34 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.98 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.1419983 West, latitude 41.501667 North, depth = 15.98 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rock Springs, Evanston, Green River (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Rock Springs (c. 23 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Green River (c. 12 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Evanston (c. 12 400 pop).

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. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 23 km NNE of Lyman, Wyoming.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.1419983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.501667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNE of Lyman, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-23 22:34:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 22:38:17 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 automatic 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 150 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 ,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 uu60355392 Id of event.
Event Code 60355392 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60355392, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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