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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Soda Springs in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6843S, -111.4866WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4866 West, latitude 42.6843 North, depth = 5.47 km. Id of earthquake: us70003h2a. Event ids that are associated: us70003h2a. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.47 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/19 / 2019-05-05 16:38:59 / May 5, 2019 @ 4:38 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:38:59 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km ENE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4866° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6843° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE 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 2019-05-05 16:38:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-05 16:56:39 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 121 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 0.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003h2a Id of event.
Event Code 70003h2a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003h2a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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