A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Tuesday. Event id: us2000agep. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000agep. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/09/17 / 2017-09-05 22:46:58 / September 5, 2017 @ 10:46 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:46:58 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -111.4516 West, latitude 42.5647 North, depth = 5 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston.
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.
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