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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Orofino in Idaho

Posted by admin on August 31, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.56S, -116.383WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Orofino in Idaho on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61063571, mb15957499, us100030d5. Id of event: us100030d5. Global time and date of event 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 00:14:04 / August 8, 2015 @ 12:14 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.8 km (7 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:14:04 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -116.383° West, 46.56° North, depth 10.8 km.

The epicenter 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). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pullman, Clarkston Heights-Vineland, West Clarkston-Highland. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NW of Orofino, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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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 2015-08-31 03:51:15 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 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 129 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 ,uw,mb,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us100030d5 Id of event.
Event Code 100030d5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61063571,mb15957499,us100030d5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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