Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag was detected near Little America in Wyoming

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Little America in Wyoming. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu80099346. Id of event: uu80099346. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/25 / 2025-01-08 00:06:24 / January 8, 2025 @ 12:06 am. The temblor was detected at 00:06:24 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth -3.4000000953674 km, -109.84633636475° West, 41.562831878662° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -3.4000000953674 km (-2 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Rock Springs (c. 23 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Green River (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rock Springs, Green River (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 2 km NNE of Little America, Wyoming. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-109.84633636475° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.562831878662° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-3.4000000953674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km NNE 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	2025-01-08 00:06:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-08 00:18:23	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	150	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1133	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.300000012 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	uu80099346	Id of event.
Event Code	80099346	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80099346,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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