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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho

Posted by admin on October 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.553S, -111.4325WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact location of event, longitude -111.4325 West, latitude 42.553 North, depth = 8.77 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/10/17 / 2017-10-11 01:53:54 / October 11, 2017 @ 1:53 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000aq13. Unique identifier: us1000aq13. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:53:54 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.77 km (5 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 18 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.553° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.77 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 2017-10-11 01:53:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-11 02:19:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 121 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 0.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 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 us1000aq13 Id of event.
Event Code 1000aq13 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aq13, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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