Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. Exact location of event, depth 5.49 km, -111.4488° West, 42.5795° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.49 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000agi9. Unique identifier: us2000agi9. The temblor was picked up at 20:48:09 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/09/17 / 2017-09-06 03:48:09 / September 6, 2017 @ 3:48 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). 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).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.4488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.5795° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2017-09-06 03:48:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-12 16:54:16	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	158	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	0.317	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us2000agi9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000agi9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000agi9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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