Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cascade in Idaho

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 64 km E of Cascade, Idaho (40 miles) on Thursday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:25:23 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.2375 West, latitude 44.5475 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70008lbq. Event ids that are associated: us70008lbq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 07:25:23 / April 2, 2020 @ 7:25 am.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km E of Cascade, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.2375° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.5475° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km E 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	2020-04-02 07:25:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-02 07:57:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	130	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	0.765	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us70008lbq	Id of event.
Event Code	70008lbq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008lbq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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