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Minor earthquake: M3.74 quake has struck near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5913333S, -111.464WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Monday. The temblor was detected at 16:14:46 / 4:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/17 / 2017-09-04 23:14:46 / September 4, 2017 @ 11:14 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -111.464° West, 42.5913333° North, depth 10.31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60233627. Id of event: uu60233627. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.31 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pocatello, Preston (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.74 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5913333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2017-09-04 23:14:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-29 22:41:14 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 3.43 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 215 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 uu60233627 Id of event.
Event Code 60233627 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60233627, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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