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Minor earthquake 3.86 mag, 5 km W of Independence, Utah

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Independence in Utah. The temblor was picked up at 06:11:19 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uu80106731. Ids that are associated to the event: uu80106731. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/25 / 2025-05-01 06:11:19 / May 1, 2025 @ 6:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -111.31649780273 West, latitude 40.30899810791 North, depth = 5.4699997901917 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.4699997901917 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tooele, Centerville, West Bountiful (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Orem (c. 88 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.31649780273° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.30899810791° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.4699997901917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km W of Independence, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-01 06:11:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-01 06:16:09	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	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	229	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.409999996 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	uu80106731	Id of event.
Event Code	80106731	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80106731,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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