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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5925S, -111.4563333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60271832. Unique identifier: uu60271832. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.57 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:49:42 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/02/18 / 2018-02-22 08:49:42 / February 22, 2018 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -111.4563333° West, 42.5925° North, depth 0.57 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston. Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 13 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4563333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2018-02-22 08:49:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-22 17:20:41 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 139 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 uu60271832 Id of event.
Event Code 60271832 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60271832, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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