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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.7159S, -111.7763WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -111.7763° West, 42.7159° North. Global time and date of event 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 21:12:56 / January 20, 2020 @ 9:12 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:12:56 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60007bld. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007bld. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Chubbuck (c. 13 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Blackfoot (c. 11 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackfoot, Preston, Chubbuck.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km WNW of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.7763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.7159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW 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 2020-01-20 21:12:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-20 22:15:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 178 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 0.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us60007bld Id of event.
Event Code 60007bld An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bld, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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