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Minor earthquake: M2.5 quake strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5245S, -112.0211WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The temblor was reported at 01:06:54 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 8.7 km (5 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-18 08:06:54 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -112.0211 West, latitude 42.5245 North, depth 8.7 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Chubbuck (c. 13 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chubbuck, Pocatello, Preston.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km WSW of Soda Springs, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-18 20:06:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-28 16:40:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 96 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7195505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125.99998992 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mc The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID mb15201522 Id of event.
Event Code 15201522 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb15201522, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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