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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Challis in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.6665S, -114.1334WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 km NNE of Challis, Idaho (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -114.1334 West, latitude 44.6665 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600052vx. Id of event: us600052vx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:02:27 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 16:02:27 / August 9, 2019 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNE of Challis, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.1334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.6665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE of Challis, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-09 16:02:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-09 16:54:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 158 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us600052vx Id of event.
Event Code 600052vx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600052vx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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