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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 39 km NNE of Idaho City, Idaho


Earthquake location 44.1389S, -115.5885WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Idaho City in Idaho. The temblor was picked up at 14:26:23 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18.08 km, -115.5885° West, 44.1389° North. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80398114, us70008q7w. Unique identifier: us70008q7w. Global time and date of event 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 21:26:23 / April 6, 2020 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.08 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boise. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Boise (c. 146 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 39 km NNE of Idaho City, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5885° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.1389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNE of Idaho 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 2020-04-06 21:26:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-07 01:15:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 122 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 ,mb,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 0.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us70008q7w Id of event.
Event Code 70008q7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80398114,us70008q7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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