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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Driggs in Idaho


Earthquake location 43.9163S, -111.1063WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Driggs in Idaho on Monday. Id of earthquake: us70006spn. Event ids that are associated: us70006spn, mb80376584. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.29 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 22:00:10 / December 30, 2019 @ 10:00 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:00:10 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.29 km, -111.1063° West, 43.9163° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jackson, Rexburg (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Rexburg (c. 25 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Jackson (c. 9 600 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 N of Driggs, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.1063° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.9163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km N of Driggs, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-30 22:00:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 22:21:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 148 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,mb, 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 0.284 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70006spn Id of event.
Event Code 70006spn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006spn,mb80376584, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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