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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near West Valley City in Utah


Earthquake location 40.7270012S, -112.0421677WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from West Valley City in Utah. Unique identifier: uu60365147. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60365147. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.86 km (-1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 21:10:54 / March 18, 2020 @ 9:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:10:54 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -112.0421677° West, 40.7270012° North, depth -0.86 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Springville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NW of West Valley City, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0421677° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7270012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NW of West Valley City, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-18 21:10:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-18 21:14:06 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 128 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09524 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 uu60365147 Id of event.
Event Code 60365147 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60365147, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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