A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Mullan in Idaho. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/15 / 2015-12-02 17:28:31 / December 2, 2015 @ 5:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:28:31 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0.02 km, -115.849° West, 47.4752° North. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80109984, us100042rm. Unique identifier: us100042rm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.02 km (0 miles).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Coeur d’Alene (c. 44 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hayden (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hayden, Coeur d’Alene (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 3 km W of Mullan, Idaho.
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