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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6197S, -111.5023WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Event id: us2000af2t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000af2t. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -111.5023° West, latitude 42.6197° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:12:53 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/09/17 / 2017-09-03 14:12:53 / September 3, 2017 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pocatello, Preston (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.5023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2017-09-03 14:12:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-03 15:09:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 179 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 0.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us2000af2t Id of event.
Event Code 2000af2t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000af2t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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