Minor earthquake: M3.47 quake has struck near Evanston in Wyoming

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Evanston in Wyoming on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 13.65 km, -111.31633° West, 41.2449989° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 02:59:12 / March 25, 2020 @ 2:59 am. Event id: uu60369962. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60369962. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.65 km (8 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:59:12 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, Taylorsville, Heber (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ogden (c. 82 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Layton (c. 67 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Millcreek (c. 62 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Taylorsville (c. 58 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km W of Evanston, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.47 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.31633° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.2449989° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km W of Evanston, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-25 02:59:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-25 03:03:55	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	185	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6526	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 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	uu60369962	Id of event.
Event Code	60369962	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60369962,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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