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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.3946S, -115.2053WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 67 km E of Cascade, Idaho (42 miles). Exact location, longitude -115.2053° West, latitude 44.3946° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70008pl2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008pl2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 23:45:52 / April 5, 2020 @ 11:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:45:52 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 67 km E of Cascade, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2053° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2020-04-05 23:45:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-05 23:59:42 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 129 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 0.895 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us70008pl2 Id of event.
Event Code 70008pl2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pl2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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