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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Circleville in Utah


Earthquake location 38.0717S, -112.4084WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Circleville in Utah. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.13 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000c56y. Event ids that are associated: us6000c56y. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:41:46 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/10/20 / 2020-10-03 13:41:46 / October 3, 2020 @ 1:41 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.4084 West, latitude 38.0717 North, depth = 4.13 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cedar City, Enoch (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Cedar City (c. 28 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Enoch (c. 5 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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. 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: 16 km SW of Circleville, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4084° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SW of Circleville, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-03 13:41:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-03 14:22:06 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 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 138 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 0.537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000c56y Id of event.
Event Code 6000c56y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c56y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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