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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho

Posted by admin on September 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.6349S, -111.4169WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.53 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4169 West, latitude 42.6349 North, depth = 6.53 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:12:38 / 8:12 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000af3x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000af3x. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/09/17 / 2017-09-03 15:12:38 / September 3, 2017 @ 3:12 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4169° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 15:12:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-06 20:20:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 129 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 0.267 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 143 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 us2000af3x Id of event.
Event Code 2000af3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000af3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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