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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5586667S, -111.4216667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Unique identifier: uu60239412. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60239412. Exact location of event, longitude -111.4216667 West, latitude 42.5586667 North, depth = 7.83 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 19:39:17 / September 8, 2017 @ 7:39 pm. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:39:17 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.83 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and six 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4216667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5586667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SE 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 2017-09-08 19:39:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 20:17:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 132 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 uu60239412 Id of event.
Event Code 60239412 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60239412, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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