Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 20 km NNW of Spencer, Idaho

Posted by admin on September 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.5399S, -112.2477WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Spencer in Idaho. The temblor was detected at 06:58:59 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -112.2477° West, latitude 44.5399° North, depth = 9.851 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/25 / 2025-09-08 06:58:59 / September 8, 2025 @ 6:58 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.851 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qup7. Id of event: us7000qup7.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Rexburg (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rexburg (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km NNW of Spencer, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.2477° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.5399° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.851 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km NNW of Spencer, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-08 06:58:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-08 07:13:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 234 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qup7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qup7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qup7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2026 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today