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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Challis in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.2485S, -115.0994WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 74 km WSW of Challis, Idaho (46 miles) on Monday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:15:37 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -115.0994° West, latitude 44.2485° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/20 / 2020-05-25 20:15:37 / May 25, 2020 @ 8:15 pm. Event id: us70009q64. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009q64. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km WSW of Challis, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.0994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2020-05-25 20:15:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-25 20:28:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us70009q64 Id of event.
Event Code 70009q64 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009q64, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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