Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Soda Springs in Idaho

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:39:17 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -111.4178 West, latitude 42.5624 North, depth = 7.33 km. Unique identifier: us2000aib3. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60239412, us2000aib3. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.33 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 19:39:17 / September 8, 2017 @ 7:39 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.4178° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.5624° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km 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	2017-09-08 19:39:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-12 12:24:44	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	1	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	129	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	,uu,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	0.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us2000aib3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aib3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60239412,us2000aib3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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