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Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag was detected near La Sal in Utah


Earthquake location 38.2610016S, -108.9223328WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from La Sal in Utah on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/20 / 2020-12-08 22:53:42 / December 8, 2020 @ 10:53 pm. Id of earthquake: uu60421272. Event ids that are associated: us7000cpag, uu60421272. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -2.55 km (-2 miles). The 3.68-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:53:42 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -108.9223328 West, latitude 38.2610016 North, depth = -2.55 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Moab (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moab.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 29 km ESE of La Sal, Utah.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.9223328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2610016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -2.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km ESE of La Sal, Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-08 22:53:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-08 23:03:14 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 4.65 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 208 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 ,us,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05441 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 96 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 uu60421272 Id of event.
Event Code 60421272 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpag,uu60421272, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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