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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Soda Springs in Idaho

Posted by admin on August 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.747S, -111.6963WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb15329867, us20002y2u. Id of event: us20002y2u. Exact location, longitude -111.6963° West, latitude 42.747° North, depth = 2.9 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:11:55 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.9 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 01:11:55 / July 17, 2015 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston, Blackfoot, Chubbuck (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Chubbuck (c. 13 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Blackfoot (c. 11 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km NW of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.6963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.747° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NW 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 2015-07-17 01:11:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-02 02:39:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 130 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us20002y2u Id of event.
Event Code 20002y2u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb15329867,us20002y2u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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