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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 15 km S of Stanley, Idaho


Earthquake location 44.081S, -114.9533WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Stanley in Idaho on Friday. Global time and date of event 01/01/21 / 2021-01-01 05:26:07 / January 1, 2021 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d4qx. Id of event: us6000d4qx. Exact location of event, longitude -114.9533 West, latitude 44.081 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:26:07 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hailey (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Hailey (c. 8 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km S of Stanley, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.9533° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.081° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km S 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 2021-01-01 05:26:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-01 05:43:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.896 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 234 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 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000d4qx Id of event.
Event Code 6000d4qx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d4qx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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