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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Wright in Wyoming


Earthquake location 43.7616S, -105.3047WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Wright in Wyoming on Tuesday. Event id: us6000bzqj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bzqj. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:13:32 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -105.3047° West, 43.7616° North, depth 15.08 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/20 / 2020-09-22 18:13:32 / September 22, 2020 @ 6:13 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.08 km (9 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gillette. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Gillette (c. 29 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km E of Wright, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.3047° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7616° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km E of Wright, Wyoming Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-22 18:13:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-22 20:26:06 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 3.846 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 199 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us6000bzqj Id of event.
Event Code 6000bzqj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bzqj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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