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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Utah


Earthquake location 41.6445S, -112.3295WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Utah kilometers (0 miles) from Utah. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.3295 West, latitude 41.6445 North, depth = 2.52 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 07:21:43 / January 12, 2021 @ 7:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.52 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: uu60423987. Event ids that are associated: uu60423987. The temblor was detected at 07:21:43 / 7:21 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Ogden (c. 82 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Layton (c. 67 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Roy (c. 36 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Clearfield (c. 30 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaysville, Layton, South Weber.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: Utah. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.3295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Utah Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-12 07:21:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-12 07:52:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.54 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 127 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 uu60423987 Id of event.
Event Code 60423987 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60423987, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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