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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 11 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho


Earthquake location 42.6195S, -111.4675WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 15:52:24 / May 10, 2020 @ 3:52 pm. Unique identifier: us70009dqf. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009dqf. Exact location of earthquake, -111.4675° West, 42.6195° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 08:52:24 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston. The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 11 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6195° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2020-05-10 15:52:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-10 16:05:58 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 4.1 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 130 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 0.307 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us70009dqf Id of event.
Event Code 70009dqf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009dqf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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