Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Hanksville in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 73 km SSE of Hanksville, Utah (45 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 09:24:40 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.02 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/16 / 2016-10-18 15:24:40 / October 18, 2016 @ 3:24 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: uu60166272. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60166272. Exact location of earthquake, -110.5256667° West, 37.7281667° North, depth 4.02 km.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km SSE of Hanksville, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.5256667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7281667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km SSE of Hanksville, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-18 15:24:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-18 15:41:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	128	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2705	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	190	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	uu60166272	Id of event.
Event Code	60166272	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60166272,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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