Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Magna in Utah

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magna in Utah. The temblor was detected at 17:08:09 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.0621643 West, latitude 40.7273331 North, depth = 6.65 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 00:08:09 / April 18, 2020 @ 12:08 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.65 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60379452. Id of event: uu60379452.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spanish Fork, Springville, Pleasant View (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km ENE of Magna, Utah. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0621643° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7273331° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km ENE of Magna, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-18 00:08:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-18 00:12:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	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	132	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06565	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	uu60379452	Id of event.
Event Code	60379452	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60379452,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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