Strong earthquake: M6.5 quake has struck near Challis in Idaho

A earthquake with magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Challis in Idaho. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -115.1361° West, latitude 44.4484° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008jr5, uu60371877. Id of event: us70008jr5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/03/20 / 2020-03-31 23:52:31 / March 31, 2020 @ 11:52 pm. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:52:31 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eagle, Garden City, Emmett (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 126 km (78 miles) from Boise (c. 146 000 pop), 128 km (80 miles) from Eagle (c. 19 900 pop), 127 km (79 miles) from Garden City (c. 11 000 pop), 122 km (76 miles) from Hailey (c. 8 000 pop), 126 km (78 miles) from Emmett (c. 6 600 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 72 km W of Challis, Idaho.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.1361° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.4484° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72km W 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	2020-03-31 23:52:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-01 00:12:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1587	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.9	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	1340	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,uu,	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	0.887	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70008jr5	Id of event.
Event Code	70008jr5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008jr5,uu60371877,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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