Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Torrey in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 31 km ENE of Torrey, Utah (19 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: uu80115091. Unique identifier: uu80115091. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.840000152588 km (14 miles). Exact location, longitude -111.07366943359° West, latitude 38.372165679932° North, depth = 21.840000152588 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/25 / 2025-08-29 01:06:10 / August 29, 2025 @ 1:06 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:06:10 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km ENE of Torrey, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.07366943359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.372165679932° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.840000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km ENE of Torrey, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-29 01:06:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-29 01:08:38	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	156	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.202	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.600000024 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	uu80115091	Id of event.
Event Code	80115091	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80115091,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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