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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Bancroft in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.656S, -111.8966WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Bancroft in Idaho on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 18:01:46 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.672 km (9 miles). Exact location, longitude -111.8966° West, latitude 42.656° North, depth = 14.672 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rky7. Event ids that are associated: us6000rky7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/25 / 2025-11-01 18:01:46 / November 1, 2025 @ 6:01 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chubbuck (c. 13 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Blackfoot (c. 11 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackfoot, Preston, Chubbuck.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 7 km S of Bancroft, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.8966° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.672 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km S of Bancroft, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-01 18:01:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-01 20:44:31 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.546 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us6000rky7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rky7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rky7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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