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Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Summit in Utah


Earthquake location 37.8863335S, -113.0145035WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Summit in Utah on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.5 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/20 / 2020-08-08 07:55:30 / August 8, 2020 @ 7:55 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60405202. Id of event: uu60405202. Exact location of event, depth 3.5 km, -113.0145035° West, 37.8863335° North. The temblor was reported at 07:55:30 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cedar City, Enoch (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km NW of Summit, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.0145035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8863335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km NW of Summit, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-08 07:55:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-08 08:01:22 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 132 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 uu60405202 Id of event.
Event Code 60405202 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60405202, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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