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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6743S, -111.3334WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Saturday. Event id: us2000aemu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aemu. Global time and date of event 03/09/17 / 2017-09-03 01:02:51 / September 3, 2017 @ 1:02 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.81 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -111.3334° West, 42.6743° North, depth 10.81 km. The temblor was reported at 18:02:51 / 6:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km E 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 2017-09-03 01:02:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-03 03:08:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.34 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 213 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 ,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 0.194 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us2000aemu Id of event.
Event Code 2000aemu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aemu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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