Minor earthquake: M3.41 quake has struck near Soda Springs in Idaho

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.18 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:34 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 01:35:34 / October 16, 2017 @ 1:35 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4203333 West, latitude 42.5596667 North, depth = 8.18 km. Unique identifier: uu60253292. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60253292.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.4203333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.5596667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.18 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	2017-10-16 01:35:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-16 14:17:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	181	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03459	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	uu60253292	Id of event.
Event Code	60253292	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60253292,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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