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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho

Posted by admin on September 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.5428S, -111.4295WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The temblor was reported at 08:20:00 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 15:20:00 / September 23, 2017 @ 3:20 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.53 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000atlk. Event ids that are associated: us2000atlk. Exact location of earthquake, -111.4295° West, 42.5428° North, depth 11.53 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Smithfield, Preston. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 18 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.53 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 2017-09-23 15:20:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-23 15:48:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.38 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 223 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 0.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us2000atlk Id of event.
Event Code 2000atlk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atlk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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