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Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Paris in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.0974998S, -111.2099991WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Paris in Idaho. Exact location, longitude -111.2099991° West, latitude 42.0974998° North, depth = 7.28 km. All ids that are associated to the event: uu60253282. Unique identifier: uu60253282. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:35:44 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 01:35:44 / October 16, 2017 @ 1:35 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.28 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hyrum (c. 7 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Providence (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hyrum, Nibley, Providence (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 21 km SE of Paris, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.2099991° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0974998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SE of Paris, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-16 01:35:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-16 01:39:17 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 167 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291 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 uu60253282 Id of event.
Event Code 60253282 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60253282, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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