A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact location of earthquake, -111.4606° West, 42.6545° North, depth 4.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:39:05 / 4:39 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000axba. Unique identifier: us2000axba. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.98 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 30/09/17 / 2017-09-30 23:39:05 / September 30, 2017 @ 11:39 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston.
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days two hundred and nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 11 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho.
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