A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, southern Idaho kilometers (0 miles) from southern Idaho. Id of earthquake: us2000agna. Event ids that are associated: us2000agna. Exact location, longitude -111.4139° West, latitude 42.5646° North, depth = 1.86 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.86 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/17 / 2017-09-06 07:55:10 / September 6, 2017 @ 7:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:55:10 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pocatello, Smithfield, Preston. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-one and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: southern Idaho.
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