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Minor earthquake 3.19 mag, 70 km WSW of Challis, Idaho


Earthquake location 44.284S, -115.0621667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) strikes 70 km WSW of Challis, Idaho (43 miles) on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -115.0621667° West, latitude 44.284° North, depth = 7.04 km. Unique identifier: mb80423279. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80423279. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 15:57:51 / May 17, 2020 @ 3:57 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.19-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:57:51 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.04 km (4 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 70 km WSW of Challis, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.0621667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.284° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WSW of Challis, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-17 15:57:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 16:19:21 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 157 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.86 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 mb80423279 Id of event.
Event Code 80423279 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80423279, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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