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Light earthquake, 4.18 mag strikes near Magna in Utah

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.18 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Magna in Utah on Tuesday. Event id: uu60378292. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60378292. Global time and date of event 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 02:56:09 / April 15, 2020 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:56:09 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.0583344 West, latitude 40.7331657 North, depth = 9.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.42 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santaquin, Brigham City, Salem (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km NE of Magna, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0583344° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7331657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km 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	2020-04-15 02:56:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-15 03:01:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	271	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	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06973	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	uu60378292	Id of event.
Event Code	60378292	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60378292,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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