Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Little America in Wyoming

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Little America in Wyoming on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 04:05:53 / January 2, 2025 @ 4:05 am. Exact location of earthquake, -109.875° West, 41.559833333333° North, depth -2.63 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu80099071. Id of event: uu80099071. The epicenter was at a depth of -2.63 km (-2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:05:53 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Rock Springs (c. 23 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Green River (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rock Springs, Green River (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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: 2 km NW of Little America, Wyoming.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-109.875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.559833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-2.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km NW of Little America, Wyoming	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-02 04:05:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-02 04:22:14	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		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	148	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1098	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	uu80099071	Id of event.
Event Code	80099071	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80099071,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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