A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact location of event, longitude -111.4156 West, latitude 42.5484 North, depth = 9.59 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 05:40:25 / January 26, 2018 @ 5:40 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.59 km (6 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:40:25 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000cpmq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cpmq.
Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km SE of Soda Springs, Idaho.
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