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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5496S, -111.4438WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/09/17 / 2017-09-11 10:00:17 / September 11, 2017 @ 10:00 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:00:17 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.43 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ajy4. Unique identifier: us2000ajy4. Exact location of event, longitude -111.4438 West, latitude 42.5496 North, depth = 7.43 km.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 17 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4438° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 2017-09-11 10:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-11 23:19:27 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 138 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 0.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us2000ajy4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ajy4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ajy4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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