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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Idaho City in Idaho


Earthquake location 43.999S, -115.1611667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 57 km ENE of Idaho City, Idaho (35 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.04 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/18 / 2018-03-14 17:06:40 / March 14, 2018 @ 5:06 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:06:40 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: mb80286159. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80286159. Exact location, longitude -115.1611667° West, latitude 43.999° North, depth = 9.04 km.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 57 km ENE of Idaho City, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.1611667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km ENE of Idaho City, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-14 17:06:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-14 19:47:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.695 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 mb80286159 Id of event.
Event Code 80286159 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80286159, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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