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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag was detected near Idaho City in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.201S, -115.1076667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was reported 71 km NE of Idaho City, Idaho (44 miles) on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.1076667 West, latitude 44.201 North, depth = 11.14 km. Event id: mb80421024. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80421024. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.14 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:03:34 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 06:03:34 / May 12, 2020 @ 6:03 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km NE of Idaho City, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.1076667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NE 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 2020-05-12 06:03:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 17:59:09 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 161 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.812 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 mb80421024 Id of event.
Event Code 80421024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80421024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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