Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Malad City in Idaho

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Malad City in Idaho. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.03 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:17:04 / 2:17 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uu60285352. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60285352. Exact location, longitude -112.57° West, latitude 41.9935° North, depth = 6.03 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 09:17:04 / June 11, 2018 @ 9:17 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hyrum, Brigham City, Nibley. Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Brigham City (c. 17 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Tremonton (c. 7 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km SW of Malad City, Idaho.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.57° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9935° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km SW of Malad City, Idaho	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-11 09:17:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-11 14:32:52	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	128	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1585	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150	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	uu60285352	Id of event.
Event Code	60285352	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60285352,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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