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Minor earthquake 3.25 mag, 15 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5851667S, -111.4466667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 15:06:08 / October 8, 2017 @ 3:06 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.5 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: uu60251722. Event ids that are associated: uu60251722. Exact location of event, depth 3.5 km, -111.4466667° West, 42.5851667° North. The temblor was reported at 08:06:08 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4466667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5851667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.5 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 2017-10-08 15:06:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-09 14:36:11 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 162 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.003793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 uu60251722 Id of event.
Event Code 60251722 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60251722, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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