Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Soda Springs in Idaho

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.38 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/17 / 2017-11-30 20:53:52 / November 30, 2017 @ 8:53 pm. Event id: us1000bjjy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60260332, us1000bjjy. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:53:52 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4012 West, latitude 42.5937 North, depth = 5.38 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.4012° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.5937° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km 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	2017-11-30 20:53:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-01 00:06:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	158	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	,uu,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	0.161	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us1000bjjy	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bjjy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60260332,us1000bjjy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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