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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5654S, -111.4823WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 03:32:08 / January 26, 2018 @ 3:32 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:32:08 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000cpkg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cpkg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -111.4823° West, 42.5654° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was North Logan, Chubbuck, Smithfield. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chubbuck (c. 13 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4823° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2018-01-26 03:32:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-26 03:43:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cpkg Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpkg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpkg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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