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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.2816S, -115.2351WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho (43 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -115.2351 West, latitude 44.2816 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008jsi. Unique identifier: us70008jsi. The temblor was detected at 18:03:03 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 01:03:03 / April 1, 2020 @ 1:03 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 69 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km ESE of Cascade, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-01 01:03:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-01 01:23:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.538 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 197 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 0.932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us70008jsi Id of event.
Event Code 70008jsi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008jsi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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