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Minor earthquake 3.11 mag, 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6373333S, -111.471WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The temblor was detected at 17:54:06 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.56 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 03/09/17 / 2017-09-03 00:54:06 / September 3, 2017 @ 12:54 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60229292. Id of event: uu60229292. Exact location, longitude -111.471° West, latitude 42.6373333° North, depth = 3.56 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6373333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 00:54:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-15 19:47:24 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 149 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 uu60229292 Id of event.
Event Code 60229292 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60229292, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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