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Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near Montpelier in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.4033318S, -111.4138336WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Montpelier in Idaho on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 15:09:16 / October 8, 2017 @ 3:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -111.4138336° West, 42.4033318° North, depth 2 km. Id of earthquake: uu60251727. Event ids that are associated: uu60251727. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:09:16 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was North Logan, Smithfield, Preston. Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km NW of Montpelier, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4138336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.4033318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NW of Montpelier, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-08 15:09:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-08 15:12:46 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 automatic 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 146 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 uu60251727 Id of event.
Event Code 60251727 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60251727, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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