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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag has occurred near Little America in Wyoming


Earthquake location 41.558666666667S, -109.8705WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Little America in Wyoming on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -109.8705 West, latitude 41.558666666667 North, depth = -3.42 km. All ids that are associated to the event: uu80101906. Unique identifier: uu80101906. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:39:26 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/25 / 2025-02-09 14:39:26 / February 9, 2025 @ 2:39 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -3.42 km (-2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter 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 four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 1 km NNW of Little America, Wyoming. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.8705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.558666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km NNW 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 2025-02-09 14:39:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-09 15:07:55 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 135 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 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 uu80101906 Id of event.
Event Code 80101906 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu80101906, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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