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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.2989S, -115.2102WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 70 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho (43 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 00:01:45 / April 1, 2020 @ 12:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -115.2102° West, latitude 44.2989° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 17:01:45 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008jrg. Unique identifier: us70008jrg.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 70 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2102° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 00:01:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-01 00:56:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1396 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.595 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 729 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 0.934 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us70008jrg Id of event.
Event Code 70008jrg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008jrg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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