Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Idaho City in Idaho

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 70 km NE of Idaho City, Idaho (43 miles) on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008m4q. Id of event: us70008m4q. The temblor was detected at 16:16:19 / 4:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.1566 West, latitude 44.2309 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 23:16:19 / April 2, 2020 @ 11:16 pm.

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 nineteen, in the last 10 days seventy-two, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 70 km NE of Idaho City, Idaho.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.1566° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.2309° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km NE of Idaho City, 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 23:16:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-02 23:22:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	138	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	0.857	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us70008m4q	Id of event.
Event Code	70008m4q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008m4q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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