A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The temblor was detected at 14:43:19 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000agcy. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000agcy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/09/17 / 2017-09-05 21:43:19 / September 5, 2017 @ 9:43 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -111.3851 West, latitude 42.582 North, depth = 5 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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