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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 11 km ENE of Georgetown, Idaho

Posted by admin on July 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.5225S, -111.2444WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Georgetown in Idaho. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 21:49:50 / July 28, 2025 @ 9:49 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.2444 West, latitude 42.5225 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 21:49:50 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qvsb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu80112711, us6000qvsb.

Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 11 km ENE of Georgetown, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.2444° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km ENE of Georgetown, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-28 21:49:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-29 04:47:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 139 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 ,uu,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.265 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us6000qvsb Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvsb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu80112711,us6000qvsb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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