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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Pine Valley in Utah


Earthquake location 37.482666S, -113.4783325WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pine Valley in Utah on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60402867. Id of event: uu60402867. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -3.28 km (-2 miles). Exact location, longitude -113.4783325° West, latitude 37.482666° North, depth = -3.28 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/20 / 2020-07-21 12:29:22 / July 21, 2020 @ 12:29 pm. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:29:22 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enoch, Saint George, Cedar City (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNE of Pine Valley, Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.4783325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.482666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NNE of Pine Valley, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-21 12:29:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-21 12:34:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 124 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1142 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 uu60402867 Id of event.
Event Code 60402867 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60402867, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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