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Minor earthquake, 3.92 mag has occurred near Magna in Utah


Earthquake location 40.7501678S, -112.0593338WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Magna in Utah. Exact location of event, longitude -112.0593338 West, latitude 40.7501678 North, depth = 3 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:32:29 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 13:32:29 / March 18, 2020 @ 1:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: uu60363682. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60363682.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brigham City, Salem, Payson (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 5 km NE of Magna, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0593338° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7501678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE of Magna, 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 13:32:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-18 13:40:24 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 5.15 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 236 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 67 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 uu60363682 Id of event.
Event Code 60363682 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60363682, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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