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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Orofino in Idaho

Posted by admin on August 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.56S, -116.383WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Orofino in Idaho. Event id: mb15957499. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61063571, mb15957499. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.383 West, latitude 46.56 North, depth = 10.8 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:14:04 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 00:14:04 / August 8, 2015 @ 12:14 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.8 km (7 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Lewiston (c. 31 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Lewiston Orchards (c. 31 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pullman (c. 29 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Moscow (c. 23 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Clarkston (c. 7 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pullman, Clarkston Heights-Vineland, West Clarkston-Highland.

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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 13 km NW of Orofino, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.56° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NW of Orofino, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-08 00:14:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-26 15:37:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 automatic 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8282467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68.399994528 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mc The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID mb15957499 Id of event.
Event Code 15957499 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61063571,mb15957499, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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