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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 16 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5809S, -111.4339WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Thursday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:46:28 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000asdx. Id of event: us2000asdx. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/09/17 / 2017-09-21 09:46:28 / September 21, 2017 @ 9:46 am. Exact location of event, depth 9.51 km, -111.4339° West, 42.5809° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.51 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 16 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 2017-09-21 09:46:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-21 10:03:53 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 158 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 0.013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us2000asdx Id of event.
Event Code 2000asdx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000asdx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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