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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Cascade in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.3165S, -115.2043WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 70 km ESE of Cascade, Idaho (43 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008pvb. Unique identifier: us70008pvb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.42 km (10 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:42:44 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -115.2043° West, 44.3165° North, depth 15.42 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 11:42:44 / April 6, 2020 @ 11:42 am.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2043° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.42 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 2020-04-06 11:42:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-06 13:22:42 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 148 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 0.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us70008pvb Id of event.
Event Code 70008pvb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pvb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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