Minor earthquake 3 mag, 8 km NNW of Challis, Idaho

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 km NNW of Challis, Idaho (5 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pzav. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pzav. Exact location of earthquake, -114.2812° West, 44.5689° North, depth 14.61 km. Global time and date of event 15/05/25 / 2025-05-15 03:45:18 / May 15, 2025 @ 3:45 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:45:18 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.61 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 8 km NNW of Challis, Idaho.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.2812° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.5689° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NNW 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	2025-05-15 03:45:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-15 03:57:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	140	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.615	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us7000pzav	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzav	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzav,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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