A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.9 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/17 / 2017-09-07 07:26:10 / September 7, 2017 @ 7:26 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:26:10 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4538 West, latitude 42.6087 North, depth = 9.9 km. Unique identifier: us2000atji. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000atji.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-six and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho.
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