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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 12 km NW of Stanley, Idaho


Earthquake location 44.2882S, -115.0591WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 12 km NW of Stanley, Idaho (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -115.0591° West, 44.2882° North. Unique identifier: us6000abmx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000abmx. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 12:11:37 / June 14, 2020 @ 12:11 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:11:37 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 12 km NW of Stanley, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.0591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NW of Stanley, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-14 12:11:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-14 12:23:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.595 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 272 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 0.862 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000abmx Id of event.
Event Code 6000abmx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000abmx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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