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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 12 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6154S, -111.4626WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 3.91 km, -111.4626° West, 42.6154° North. Event id: us2000apre. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000apre. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.91 km (2 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:49:09 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/09/17 / 2017-09-18 04:49:09 / September 18, 2017 @ 4:49 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pocatello, Preston. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one 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. 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: 12 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4626° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2017-09-18 04:49:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-18 05:15:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.89 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 202 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 0.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000apre Id of event.
Event Code 2000apre An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000apre, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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