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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag was detected near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5516667S, -111.429WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Global time and date of event 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 03:35:53 / January 26, 2018 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: uu60266002. Event ids that are associated: uu60266002. The temblor was reported at 20:35:53 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.429 West, latitude 42.5516667 North, depth = 8.73 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.73 km (5 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.429° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5516667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.73 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 2018-01-26 03:35:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-26 15:42:11 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 4.3 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 166 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 uu60266002 Id of event.
Event Code 60266002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60266002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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