A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.78 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -111.4278333 West, latitude 42.5688333 North, depth = 6.78 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 20:30:10 / October 19, 2017 @ 8:30 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60254027. Unique identifier: uu60254027. The temblor was reported at 13:30:10 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter).
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). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-five 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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