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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag has occurred near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6636667S, -111.4875WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4875 West, latitude 42.6636667 North, depth = 4.56 km. The 3.25-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:45:54 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/04/19 / 2019-04-04 09:45:54 / April 4, 2019 @ 9:45 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.56 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: uu60319427. Event ids that are associated: uu60319427.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pocatello, Preston. Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 9 km E of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4875° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6636667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E 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 2019-04-04 09:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-04 15:13:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 163 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 uu60319427 Id of event.
Event Code 60319427 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60319427, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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