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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, southern Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6568S, -111.4447WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, southern Idaho kilometers (0 miles) from southern Idaho. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.98 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -111.4447 West, latitude 42.6568 North, depth = 1.98 km. Unique identifier: us2000ahy5. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ahy5. The temblor was reported at 07:31:19 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 07:31:19 / September 8, 2017 @ 7:31 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: southern Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4447° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-08 07:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 07:56:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 148 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 0.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us2000ahy5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ahy5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ahy5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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