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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.2997S, -115.1641WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 73 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho (45 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.1641 West, latitude 44.2997 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000986p. Event ids that are associated: us7000986p. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 12:25:10 / May 1, 2020 @ 12:25 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:25:10 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.1641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 2020-05-01 12:25:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-01 13:14:13 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 121 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 0.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000986p Id of event.
Event Code 7000986p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000986p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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