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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.3876S, -115.8635WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Cascade in Idaho on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.916 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ri0y. Unique identifier: us6000ri0y. Exact location of event, depth 9.916 km, -115.8635° West, 44.3876° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:20:06 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 12:20:06 / October 18, 2025 @ 12:20 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Emmett (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Emmett (c. 6 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SE of Cascade, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.8635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3876° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.916 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SE of Cascade, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-18 12:20:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-18 13:02:18 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 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.486 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 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 us6000ri0y Id of event.
Event Code 6000ri0y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ri0y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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