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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.3749S, -115.2625WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 63 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho (39 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.26 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70008jtv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008jtv, mb80387424. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:09:05 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 02:09:05 / April 1, 2020 @ 2:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 6.26 km, -115.2625° West, 44.3749° North.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km ESE of Cascade, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-01 02:09:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-01 17:06:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 31 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.558 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 313 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,mb, 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 0.885 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008jtv Id of event.
Event Code 70008jtv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008jtv,mb80387424, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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