Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near West Valley City in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from West Valley City in Utah on Wednesday. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:17:10 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 17:17:10 / March 18, 2020 @ 5:17 pm. Unique identifier: uu60020384. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60020384. Exact location of event, depth 8.72 km, -112.0391667° West, 40.7515° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.72 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Springville.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNW of West Valley City, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0391667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7515° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNW 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 17:17:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-23 22:36:07	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	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02465	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	uu60020384	Id of event.
Event Code	60020384	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60020384,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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